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Review of ODC/Dance "boulders and bones"

February 09, 2016 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Review of ODC/Dance "boulders and bones"

Review of ODC/Dance's boulders and bones on Critical Dance, by Carmel Morgan.

Critical Dance has published a lovely review by Carmel Morgan of ODC/Dance's boulders and bones, featured at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on January 29, 2016.

An excerpt from the review:

After digging out from a recent snow storm, the audience at ODC/Dance’s performance of "boulders and bones" at the University of Maryland was treated to scenes of more digging, this time in the form of film footage by RJ Muna of noted landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy and his crew hefting and carving stone to make "Culvert Cairn," a 2013 private commission in Marin County, California.  The roughly hour-long collaboration by choreographers Brenda Way and KT Nelson is full of ideas about the process of creation.  In the beginning, a couple resting on their knees at the front of the stage, with the house lights up, stacks thin sticks.  They do some solemnly, with great concentration.  Behind them is quote from Goldsworthy on a scrim warning the audience that intense activity in a confined space will take place and promising high drama as well as silence.  Those warnings and promises and more are fulfilled.

Photo by RJ Muna

Read the article: ODC/Dance at University of Maryland: boulders and bones