Two White Rooms
The arc of our evening encompassed two white rooms conceived of by European women, one a Dutch choreographer and one a German expatriate.
Uli Beutter’s four-screen video installation “White” at the Everett Station Lofts was wall-to-wall with visitors (more coming all the time) early in the evening. A short piece on loop, one almost wishes we could have lingered longer on the arresting stillness of the twenty-some actors of all ages and varying ethnicities painted head-to-toe white in this white room (it’s such a beautiful image) before Beutter introduces her colorful false catalyst whose choice, made quickly and with surprising consequences, leaves unaltered the white stasis. The coating, dripping white paint was another unforgettable image…especially coupled with the very faintest smell of paint in the room. Don’t forget to look up. The work is on view again today from 2-4 PM and on First Thursday from 7-10 PM.
The second white room was the set of “Rebound” by Rotterdam-based choreographer Conny Janssen Danst at PSU’s Lincoln Hall. Previews of the piece emphasized the set (the lighting too was a terrific actor in the piece), but the story last night was that of the five brilliant male dancers who powerfully executed Conny Janssen’s exploration of all that it is to be a man interacting with men: challenging, dominating, joking, one-upping, going along with the crowd, and breaking away. There are ten thousand ways this could have gone wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
POSTED: March 25th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »