Critic turned critic-entrepreneur Donald Hutera is creating and curating opportunities for dancers to perform who might otherwise have few occasions to show their work. Oxford is a first for GOlive and there is a further outing at the Chesil Theatre in Winchester on July 24. The venues are small — the original GOlive venue at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town holds 60 people and the Burton-Taylor studio seats 50 — but their intimacy works well for the small-scale works Hutera is presenting. One of the advantages of this proximity is the value given to the subtleties of communication; there are elements of this evening’s program that provide a master class in the art of integrating the head and eyes in the moving body, a vital aspect that is all too often overlooked in dance training. (more…)
July 31, 2015
GOlive Oxford Burton Taylor Studio 18th July – Nicholas Minns reviews
Posted by susiecrow under reviews | Tags: Adrian Corker, Anuradha Chaturvedi, Avid for Ovid, Bikram Ghosh, Burton Taylor Studio, Catrin Lewis, Donald Hutera, Effie McGuire, Fascination, Ffin Dance, GOlive Oxford, Jeremy Thurlow, Malcolm Atkins, Marie-Louise Crawley, Meena Selva Anand, My Own Private Movie, Myrrha, Natasha Wade, QuickSilver, Shades of Tisiphone, Silent Melody, Sue Lewis, Susan Kempster, Susie Crow |1 Comment
July 24, 2015
GOlive Festival 2015 Burton Taylor Studio 18th July 2015 – Philippa Newis reviews
Posted by susiecrow under reviews | Tags: Anuradha Chaturvedi, Burton Taylor Studio, Donald Hutera, Fascination, Ffin Dance, GOlive Oxford, Jeremy Thurlow, My Own Private Movie, Oxford Playhouse, Philippa Newis, QuickSilver, Sue Lewis, Susan Kempster |Leave a Comment
We are up close and personal in the Burton Taylor Studio at the Oxford Playhouse. Presenting dance in small space makes fresh demands on performers as well as those of us watching. The proximity of the dancers intensifies the experience. The degree of intimacy is a little unsettling, but we are a friendly crowd and a warm camaraderie fuels goodwill.
Curated by Donald Hutera, GOlive is in its third year. Introducing the programme Hutera is like a kid in a sweet shop and his enthusiasm is infectious. All six works had something new to offer. My Own Private Movie choreographed and performed by Susan Kempster involves some of the audience entering the performance space and engaging in very simple improvisations. Kempster gives us all MP3 players with unique soundtracks. In something akin to my daily commute, my head and my body are in two different places. And perhaps this is Kempster’s point, the delicious contradiction of social media: together and not together, caught between the virtual and the physical but unable to belong wholly to either. (more…)
July 16, 2015
GOlive Oxford 2015, curated by Donald Hutera. Burton Taylor Studio, 15 July 2015
Posted by susiecrow under reviews | Tags: Beat Street, Burton Taylor Studio, Cecilia Macfarlane, Crossover Intergenerational Dance Company, Donald Hutera, GOlive DAnce and Performance Festival, GOlive Oxford, Hanna Wroblewski, Jacqueline Johnson, Mara Vivas, Marina Collard, Sarah Kent |[3] Comments
Donald Hutera has brought Oxford a remarkable programme of innovative dance, which is also an exciting opportunity to see local artists’ work in a broader context.
The evening opened with Marina Collard’s And So It Goes On, a beautifully thought out dance that combined live performance and film. Collard danced in relation to her filmed image, projected onto the brick wall at the back of the stage, in a work full of subtle reflections and repetitions. Elegant, intense, yet restrained, the vertical focus of the live dance on the flat floor in front gained an added dimension from the video beside it, not only because there seemed to be a second dancer moving in a different plane, but also because the feeling of a raked stage at a different angle behind. Next, Oxford hip hop dancers Beat Street followed with Heart Cry, a graceful and surprisingly gentle work performed by three young men, who used the genre in an original and unusual way. (more…)