by The last time Jules Cunningham worked with a famous musician, Spice Girl Mel C danced how we came here? This time it is Le Tigres JD Samson. A genre that was selected in the collaboration, but all the time Cunningham remains loyal to her own way as a creator of a very formal, reserved dance that keeps waking up her curiosity.
In Crow, Samson is installed behind a mixed desk on the wide -stage of Sadler’s Wells East and plays bubbling electronics, bubbling sounds and pulsating bass. Cunningham and dancer Harry Alexander have now dressed long boots and short clothes and warm up with a strut. Crow is inspired by the queer American composers Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman and a certain (undocumented) performance from the 1970s. Cunningham takes the idea of outsiders and marginalization and compares them with birds that live in enemy urban rooms. In one phase, the three performers gather and take a curious and accusing view of the audience; It is very similar that it is eyeed by a gang of crow.
With their mastery of the geometry of the body, Cunningham and Alexander are their ability to check the precision of the exact choreography and Alexander two of the most -like, brilliant dancers. You can see how you watch each other, sometimes reflect and sometimes hunt an idea on stage. There is a female and serious, strict and play, details such as the film along the floor along the floor with two falling quavers in the score, which gives the effect of a question mark or an increased eyebrow. It is an avant -garde joy.
Pigeons has five dancers and is set on Eastmans 1980 piece of Gay Guerilla, with several pianos to have the same chord. It is music that expands and shifts while staying on site. However, the dancers always move into harmony, canon or counterpoint; They group and participate how pigeons do and do their very special footwork and develop them according to their own logic. It is slightly hypnotic. Cunningham was a long -time dancer of the legendary Merce Cunningham (no relationship), and they cannot help but recognize the link with Merces Beach Birds, which was performed as part of the dance reflection festival last week, only in Jules’ own world, their own time.
