Bebe Miller takes us back
Metro New York
By: Elizabeth Zimmer
Published: November 14, 2008
Review. Making a dance about memory is a minefield, but Bebe Miller’s new “Necessary Beauty” negotiates the past with characteristic élan. Six women share the stage with two large rear-projection screens and, some of the time, chairs.
Onstage at Dance Theater Workshop, video by Maya Ciarrocchi conjures a beach and a Western landscape painting in which a tiny waterfall magically tumbles down cliffs. Strains of a Purcell composition float in the atmosphere; snatches of Albert Mathias’s percussion score sweep in.
A lovely fog of action, image and sound carries “Necessary Beauty” through its 80 minutes. The dancers watch us as attentively as we watch them, their stillness erupting into solo and group movement sequences.
Bebe Miller Company
Through Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 W. 19th St.
$15-$26, 212-924-0077
www.dtw.org
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