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maciej_florek Re: breakbone danceco.'s 13.07.03, 20:42

Breakbone DanceCo.
"Logotype" the concert - an evening of dance exile.
June 7, 8 & 9, 2002. Links Hall Studio - Chicago
Breakbone brutal, honest, beautiful

You expect something edgy from a troupe calling itself Breakbone DanceCo., and,
boy, do you get it.
This amazing ensemble is about as far removed from pretty, artful choreography
as the human body can endure. These six women and one man fall to the floor
with so much angry energy it hurts to watch. During one moment in "Logotype,"
on view this past weekend at Links Hall Studio, three of the women drop three
others with such surprise and force you're astonished no one is hurt. But that
punk intensity, that anti-pretty aesthetic only begins to describe the
gutsiness and ferocious imagination of artistic director Atalee Judy, who also
dances. Judy doesn't comment on contemporary culture so much as she throws it,
sickeningly at times, in your face. Tinged with self-conscious angst, a little
bit too drenched in automatic avant-garde, "Logotype" nevertheless assaults
with issues idealistic young artists invariably address.

Judy does so with passion, wit, insight and breathtaking honesty. The
oppression of women, suicide, the dehumanization of a computer society and
genocide come up. Miraculously, she controls her topics and masterfully blends
performance art and dance, even while it is harsh, frightening and the ultimate
in alienation.

A piece in which one of a band of gas-masked robots tries to break free and
fight conformity segues into its hard, pounding dance sections with natural
ease. A slide and video show is skillfully meshed into the rest, providing
evocative film strips in scary sync with the dancers. Judy, clad in a blood-red
wig, starts in a solo piece dressed in stuffed teddy bears, and the program
concludes with winged angels on a trip through the galaxies. Earlier, Elizabeth
Lentz portrays a woman agonizingly flirting with suicide.

Their backs painted with scanner codes, the cast lines up while a laser beam
crosses over them: humans as supermarket purchases. Breakbone blends video,
choreography, drama, surreal imagery and rock music and says something
important while doing so.

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune/Metromix, June 11, 2002

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maciej_florek Re: breakbone danceco.'s 13.07.03, 20:42

Breakbone DanceCo.
"Logotype" the concert - an evening of dance exile.
June 7, 8 & 9, 2002. Links Hall Studio - Chicago
Breakbone brutal, honest, beautiful

You expect something edgy from a troupe calling itself Breakbone DanceCo., and,
boy, do you get it.
This amazing ensemble is about as far removed from pretty, artful choreography
as the human body can endure. These six women and one man fall to the floor
with so much angry energy it hurts to watch. During one moment in "Logotype,"
on view this past weekend at Links Hall Studio, three of the women drop three
others with such surprise and force you're astonished no one is hurt. But that
punk intensity, that anti-pretty aesthetic only begins to describe the
gutsiness and ferocious imagination of artistic director Atalee Judy, who also
dances. Judy doesn't comment on contemporary culture so much as she throws it,
sickeningly at times, in your face. Tinged with self-conscious angst, a little
bit too drenched in automatic avant-garde, "Logotype" nevertheless assaults
with issues idealistic young artists invariably address.

Judy does so with passion, wit, insight and breathtaking honesty. The
oppression of women, suicide, the dehumanization of a computer society and
genocide come up. Miraculously, she controls her topics and masterfully blends
performance art and dance, even while it is harsh, frightening and the ultimate
in alienation.

A piece in which one of a band of gas-masked robots tries to break free and
fight conformity segues into its hard, pounding dance sections with natural
ease. A slide and video show is skillfully meshed into the rest, providing
evocative film strips in scary sync with the dancers. Judy, clad in a blood-red
wig, starts in a solo piece dressed in stuffed teddy bears, and the program
concludes with winged angels on a trip through the galaxies. Earlier, Elizabeth
Lentz portrays a woman agonizingly flirting with suicide.

Their backs painted with scanner codes, the cast lines up while a laser beam
crosses over them: humans as supermarket purchases. Breakbone blends video,
choreography, drama, surreal imagery and rock music and says something
important while doing so.

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune/Metromix, June 11, 2002
maciej_florek Adres,tel. 13.07.03, 20:43

Breakbone DanceCo.
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