Atlanta Dance Collective’s Time + Itinerant at Synchronicity Theater included four dance pieces by four choreographers in four distinct styles with 3 1/3 distinct ensembles of performers. The live performances were followed by a brief screening of dance for film, the Opine Dance Film Festival, that offered an additional 11 pieces for any audience members who paid the extra $3 on top of the $12 ticket for the main dance concert to stick around and watch it. Overall, the evening not only offered great bang for the buck but also some pretty decent dance and film.
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Despite some weaknesses on the front in the of the program, Atlanta Ballet’s March production, 20|20 Visionary, was generally good. A mixed repertoire program, all three pieces were commissioned by the company, although only one received its premiere with this program.
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After an awful day at work, I walked down to 7 Stages where I bought a ticket to Breakaway by Full Radius Dance and then drank a sizable cup of not very good wine before being seated for the show. I must say that it’s a good thing that I live within walking distance of the theater because I don’t think that I had enough to eat for supper and the wine hit me pretty hard. All of that is to say that, although I enjoyed the dance concert, the first half of it is already a bit of a blur to me.
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Feeling exhausted and beat down by a day that seemed determined to drive me off the edge, I attended the first evening of Off the Edge dance festival at the Rialto. Curated by Ilter Abrahimof, the executive director of a talent management agency that specializes in touring dance productions, this evening’s program featured works from five very different artists. The program for tomorrow’s show, during which I’ll be attending an ASO concert, will feature completely different works, though some of the same performance companies.
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It’s only February and I’m pretty sure that I just experienced the most beautiful and human piece of art that I will encounter this year. Sean Dorsey Dance’s The Missing Generation is a poignant, well crafted, and well performed expression of a living history of the experiences of the generation of LGBT people who survived the early period of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US.
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