The Acoustic Kinetic Collective Show
4:00 PM, Sat., 2/28
8:30 PM, Sun., 3/1
8:30 PM, Fri., 3/6
5:30 PM, Sat., 3/7
$5
The Acoustic Kinetic Collective invites you to cozy into your seat and relax your sensory assumptions as we push time like a Slinky, stretch sound into matter. Musicians, dancers, choreographers and composers grapple together: What happens when you stretch breath and body beyond their natural limits? How do relationships change as we expand the minute detail of each moment? Who is the mover? Who is moved? How far can human physical time-keeping take us, and where does it break down? The Collective approaches these questions with movement, emotion, instruments, birdsong, jumpropes and more!
The Acoustic Kinetic Collective
Fresno, California
www.myspace/acoustickineticcollective
Genre: Experimental Dance
Rating: G 60 minutes
Latecomers admitted within 15 minutes
Filed under: 2/28 Saturday, 3/1 Sunday, 3/6 Friday, 3/7 Saturday, Starline Performance Venue
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March 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Cheryl Kershaw, back finally to the Rogue. It is never the same without her and an even more unique festival when she is a part of it. All of the choreography and dancers, musicians and singers, came together to form a really cohesive show and concept of stretching, bending and playing with time. The show starts outside where the line forms and unless I missed something before this is something the Rogue has not seen and it was sooooo powerful, I only wish the rest of the line (not just the front) could see this beautiful “mover.” It was incredible.
The third? piece by Cheryl with original music by Kenneth Frolich is hypnotic, it felt like a time warp; strangely nostalgic and yet prophetic, with a baron post apocalyptic street setting and youthful skateboarder, that time left behind, who has the world to herself. Cheryl’s “jumprope” piece was again, nostalgic and yet modern. An intellectually witty piece that makes me want to learn double dutch.
The show ends with a vibrant modern piece by Debra DeRosa Parola, another local phenom. It was quirky and energetic as the dancers seemed to be competing to control the timing of the piece. With some spoken word adding another “dimension” the piece continued to build and was a great way to end the show. Thank you to all involved, I really enjoyed myself. Two more chances to see this great group.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
[...] - ‘The Accoustic Kinetic Collective Show’: There was not enough dancing, and way too much interpretive movements in this dance performance, at least for my tastes. In one piece, two dancers did a series of repetitive motions around a bed, and in another piece, four dancers jumped rope. The show was enjoyable in the moments when the dancers actually let loose and moved to the live music - but for the most part, this was the type of modern dance performance that gives modern dance a bad name. Sorry. [...]
March 7th, 2009 at 12:22 am
I liked it! Lots of variety, very unusual ideas. The pre-show dance out on the sidewalk was extremely effective. Inside, the silhouetted skateboarder with projected scenery was amazing, and fit well with Ken Froelich’s music. The dancers seemed to be having a good time and so did the audience.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I have to say that this show had its moments, the dancers all danced well but the Starline doesn’t really provide the space for dance performance so i think in a way its a bit of a handicap for the show. I really enjoyed the use of the live music that was incorporated while they danced. One thing I wasn’t impressed with was the jump rope, I’ve just seeing better jump roping at elementary school …
March 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I’m still thinking about the skateboard piece…marvelous!