(I checked out this magazine earlier, and it does tend to be critical of all the works it features. I don't know that we answer life's questions, but I do think we touch on some aspects that lead to further consideration for the audience.)
Neta Pulvermacher’s “2280 Pints!” demonstrates that Stomp did not exhaust the possibilities of plastic buckets. The dance uses fifty-seven of the containers, and, in addition to being employed as drums, they also serve as boots, lanterns, stepping stones, hockey pucks, dollies, top hats, and more. At the start, pennies dropped in them bring the dancers to life, and the subsequent modes oscillate between a music-box feel, a vintage TV dance party, and artier slow bits. The ideas keep coming, touching on fun and beauty but promising a bit more than what is delivered by Pulvermacher’s company, expanded for its twenty-fifth anniversary to a stage-filling seventeen dancers by a supplement of students from the University of Florida.
Today we went through spacing for a few hours in rehearsal. Then I went with one of the company members to see some informal dance in Brooklyn. Before the show began I shopped at Beacon's Closet, a trendy secondhand store in Williamsburg. Then down to WAX Works on the same street. It's another open showing, for feedback, which featured five different pieces, some which peaked my interest and others that made me ask more questions about purpose. I will say that I continue to be surprised by how dancers are able to find space in which to practice and perform in this city of tall, narrow buildings!
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