VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY.ISRAELI `HEART' HAS SOUL VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY 92ND ST. Y DANCE PROJECT THE DUKE ON 42ND STREET FEBRUARY 28, 2001 The atmosphere of the Duke Theatre evoked a waiting room in an urban hospital. It was occupied by an Israeli company named Vertigo, whose action unfurled around a gurney gurney /gur·ney/ (gur´ne) a wheeled cot used in hospitals. gur·ney n. pl. gur·neys A metal stretcher with wheeled legs, used for transporting patients. in an opening work called Gas Heart. Parked quietly downstage down·stage adv. Toward, at, or on the front part of a stage. adj. Of or relating to the front part of a stage. n. The front half of a stage. Noun 1. , the cart bore a draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. corpse, which soon became a disembodied head poking up from the center of the vehicle. Aviv Eve-Gue performed the title character with an intensely deadpan involvement. Nimbly scooting scooting a form of behavior limited largely to dogs. Sliding along on the ground while sitting on the perineal area and with the hindlimbs extended forwards. Caused usually by irritation in the perineal area, chiefly anal sac irritation. about the stage, Gas Heart met with other performers called Eye, Mouth, Ear, Nose, Neck, and Eyebrow. Usually, dance excursions into Dadaism or Absurdism ab·surd·ism n. 1. A philosophy, often translated into art forms, holding that humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe and that any search for order by them will bring them into direct conflict with this universe: are deliberately, even daringly fanciful, with an emphasis on highly colorful costuming and decor. But this production, directed by Gabor Goda and Ildiko Mandy, with costumes by Kisztina Berzsenyi, was deliberately plain, almost anonymous. The action was based on a playlet play·let n. A short play. Noun 1. playlet - a short play drama, dramatic play, play - a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway" by Tristan Tzara, translated into English from French by Michael Benedikt, and there was a lively musical collage encompassing no fewer than eight participants. The tone of Gas Heart swung between the fanciful and the pedestrian, as did its choreography by Goda, Mandy, and Noa Wertheim. The effect was highly energetic, deliberately grounded, and bold. The men, led by Adi Sha'al, resembled lion cubs casing their territory. The women, led by Wertheim, were equally earth-aware. Together they engaged in a tough-muscled excursion braided through with a text that also ranged from the poetic ("The cellists go by in a carriage of Chinese tea, biting the air and open-hearted caresses. You are beautiful, Clytemnestra, the crystal of your skin awakens our sexual curiosity. You are as tender and calm as two yards of white silk") to the simply insistent, as typified by the long exchange between Nose and Neck that went something like this: "I tell you it's two yards." "I tell you it's three yards," and so forth up to twenty-nine yards. What did it all mean? Where was the "gurney journey" headed? I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. , but the stout-hearted intensity of this company provided a conviction of its own. |
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