Bodies get a workout in Robert Moses’ Kin BY Series
Or will they select works founded in an unfamiliar artistic philosophy?
What she offered here was an inventive, fast-moving quintet.
There’s perhaps a bit too much floor work for this taste; dancers spread supine cease to be interesting after a while, but Foley possesses a flair for phrasing that boasts both shape and contrast.
Lopes informs us that the piece is inspired by the mathematical concept of the Markov chain and that algorithm has dictated part of the composition.
What the untutored eye saw was five RMK dancers (Kristen Bell replacing Disenhof in the above grouping) engaging in a series of movement non sequiturs, which begin with a threesome on folding chairs mugging so extravagantly you want to dive under your seat.
In “Draft,” eight visiting dancers and seven from RMK participated in the latest version of a performance project first ventured in 2006.
The current cast was made to study the original material, but the projection is too dim to serve as anything but background.
The music, bawdy African American songs from an earlier era, were drawn from a two-CD collection, “Copulation Blues.”
A forceful attraction-repulsion partnership that packed tension in every phrase, it elicited the strongest dancing of the evening.