Liz Gerring Dance Co World Premier "(T)here to (T)here" Collaborating with Artist Kay Rosen

Liz Gerring's new, collaborative dance performance "(T)here to (T)here" premiered at the BAC as part of the White Lights Festival last evening.  This dynamic piece was enhanced by the visual text by artist Kay Rosen and score by composer Michael Schumacher.  Schumacher's computer generated composition provided a constant tonal sound that underpinned the forceful impact of the dancers.  The The 5 dancers, including Gherring performing in her piece, are all robust dancers whose athleticism maintained a taut elegance.  The austere staging & language based artwork also enhanced the impact of the abstract fluidity of the dancers' movements.  The piece commenced with an urgency relating to time and its perpetual momentum.  The individual choreography flowed unimpeded.  The physical contact between dancers was minimal but the parrallel connections were echoed resoundedly.  Rosen, whose works have been exhibited at the MoMA, Whitney & internationally, used illuminating text that  defined spatial relationships.  Rosen interwove & played with various words such as divisibility, vertical, horizontal, and there.   The identically sized lettering showed the equation 1 + 1 = 1 1.  The cerebral & potent performance portrayed the independent beauty of an individual with its moments of human interaction.