Imagine you are new to watching dance performance, and saw all 3 major contemporary dance works that were going on in SF Bay area last week, by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Kunst-Stoff, and LevyDance, you would probably conclude that contemporary dance is:
A group of people moving on stage, with the music, and with one, and ONLY one girl dancing topless.
Seeing 3 in a roll is too much a coincidence. There must be a conspiracy going on:)
All three works are fantastic. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presented a all European night, with all four pieces choreographed by European choreographers. They won long applause after each piece. Kunst-Stoff and LevyDance also presented heavily European influenced work marking the opening of new ODC theater. The show ran for 2 weeks, and tickets were still sold out for both Friday and Saturday. Many people arrived but couldn’t get in.
I think it’s safe to say that SF is a European city.
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With a twisted perspective.