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Break Open PlayWe went to a National Arts Centre dance production last night with Gav and Emily. Break Open Play (see also here) was commissioned by the NAC’s youth dance committee with a view to hooking more teenagers on dance.As background, I should say that I’m not a huge dance afficionado, although I find some dance performances quite enjoyable. I’m definitely not a fan of contemporary dance as a voyeuristic experience; I find many modern dance companies fall back on sexual innuendo onstage. The beginning of Break Open Play got off to a shaky start, but quickly became much more interesting as the company left the obvious “we’re in bed together” material behind. The dance piece constantly had me re-evaluating what was an active part of the production, and what was passive. The music (excellent, trancy, by the way) had CD clicks and needle pop sounds which gradually came to become rhythmic devices. The stage dressing, consisting of three large floor-to-ceiling sheets of paper mounted as a sort of segmented cyclorama, was soon attacked with scissors and converted to set piece, then later (with the help of some gaff tape) converted to costume. A brilliant prop was an overhead projector that lit dancers dressed in white; overhead markers coloured the dancers in while we watched. Of course, the projector later became incorporated into the performance as more than a static prop, as did the low cart it was on. All in all, I enjoyed myself, although I thought the pace dragged a bit from time to time. I wonder what the teenagers thought of it… perhaps they thought it needed to be sexxed up?
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