Shick’s Schtick Lost without a Translation

Letter from New York, 1-24: Disengage the Disconnect

By April Biggs
Copyright 2008 April Biggs
The Dance Insider

NEW YORK — Saturday, January 12: Vicky Shick’s “Plum House (a Cartoon)” stirs even in its pre-show darkness at Dance Theater Workshop. The hub of the piece is a barebones wooden frame house poised upstage right. Like a doorless outhouse with transparent walls, the beams loom and a bald light bulb with a yellow oval in its pear-shaped belly hangs center. The solitude of the house draws the eye to the stark black space everywhere else on stage. Read more