Women's work. (New York).

"I am interested in creating an intimate world, little vignettes or miniatures," says Vicky Shick about her new work, Undoing, at Dance Theater Workshop March 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, and 23. "The nuance and absurdity of everyday action and gesture, and combining it with dance movement--I am obsessed with that." Shick, a former dancer with Trisha Brown, is known for the quiet sensuality and enigmatic imagery of her choreography. Undoing features movable partitions made by her longtime visual collaborator, Barbara Kilpatrick. Set to a score by Elise Kermani, the new dance features five dancers: Shick plus Jodi Melnick (see "A Trend Toward Self-Reliance," DANCE MAGAZINE, November 2002, page 38), Juliette Mapp, Meg Wolfe, and Eileen Thomas. The title stems from a W.G. Sebald story about sisters who would sit together sewing and, at the end of the day, take apart their work because it wasn't as beautiful as they had hoped. Shick says the story reminded her of "the precariousness of things."