This past weekend Dancers' Workshop presented Gallim Dance from NYC. The young company's performance of their piece Blush has stayed with me into this week, images from the the evening-length work popping into my head from time to time. The freshness, the newness, the intensity and emotion was all so welcome and needed and embraced. This company's work spoke to me, told me to stop being so fearful and just go for it, that anything goes, that following emotion and feeling is not a bad impulse....It was quite forceful. There was nothing sweet or even traditionally beautiful about Blush and that is why it was one of my favorite dance pieces that I have ever seen.
It also made me want to choreograph something. And start dancing again. Oh, if only I hadn't stopped taking modern dance when I was five years old with Judy Davis! :)
