...Most incisive was “The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker” by Hearne, who together with Dale Fellin just joined Andrea Skowronek as City in Motion’s new artistic direction. This delightful “celebration” of alleged sightings in Arkansas of a lost species of woodpecker had whimsy and originality.
While Hearne danced with limpid grace behind a scrim bearing images of rural Arkansas, a rocking chair rocked by itself, emitting a squeak that turned out to be the squawk of the woodpecker. Likewise, an intermittent rap on the door is ultimately the peck of the bird’s beak on a tree.
At times even Hearne took flight, but then settled, resigned, into the chair. On the soundtrack were garbled NPR interviews about the bird, whose sightings appear to be as much folk legend as reality.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Ivory-bill dance
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Oh the beauty of being a liberal arts major where being creative is more important than being rigorous.
Too bad that Fitzcrow missed his calling. Had he been as creative in dance as he is in science he would now be viewed as breaking new artistic ground. Unfortunately he is now looked on as a scientific fraud who continues to break old wind.
Major suckage!
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