Complexions Dance Co at the Joyce-Rejoice in Their David Bowie Tribute "Star Dust"

Complexions was founded by choreographers Dwight Rhoden & Desmond Richard in 1994.  "The company's foremost innovation is that dance should be about removing boundaries, not reinforcing them."  This coincides with their ingenious tribute to David Bowie's groundbreaking & constantly evolving musical genius & innovative style.  Dwight Rhoden & Desmond Richard have much in common being incredibly talented dancers & choreographers & having the same initials.  Both DR(s) techniques & styles encompass a broad spectrum of dance; classical, jazz, modern and incorporate various cultures, styles and epochs.  Both men were principal dancers with the Alvin Ailey Amer Dance Theater.  Rhoden was also danced with Les Ballet Jazz De Montreal & received the Ailey School's Apex Award.  Desmond Richardson performed in numerous dance compabies & on B'wy in the original "Fosse" (1999) for which he received a Tony nom.  And both have performed with or choreographed for many superstars ranging from the ballet world: Wendy Whelan to pop megastars; Michael Jackson, Aretha Francklin & Madonna.  The Joyce held a world premiere for "Gutter Glitter" (GG) followed by "So Not A…(An Epilogue to GG.)  "(GG)" & "So Not A" both had a lot to admire & recommend; particularily the talented ensemble of athletic & artistic dancers. (GG) & its epilogue logged too much on the timeclock made all the more tiring for its non-stop high energy and frentic  running.  The few pas de deuxs were a welcomed respite.   Some of the vocabulary appeared taken from Ailey's new piece "Untitled America" and Bill T Jones' "Fondly Do We Hope - Ferverently Do We Pray."  Still, the work had its own creative originality and musicality.  "Star Dust" had 9 movements which segued seamlessly to the music of the late, great David Bowie.  This piece was sensational, celestial, exuberant, fantastic (I could go to infinity & beyond with praise.)  "Star Dust" was a burst of artistic mastery that combined ballet, modern, jazz, gymnastics, humor, theatrical staging & lighting.  "Star Dust"is a loving legacy to a prolific, innovative musician & maverick of style as in his genre-bending endrogenistic looks.  In keeping with Bowie's endrogenistic aesthetics, a male dancer performed in pointe shoes as did a number of the women.  The piece had beautiful, powerful & ecstatic balletic & modern choreography.  I partiularily loved "Changes," "Heroes" "Modern Love," and "Young Americans."  I felt blasted back into the past & into outer space.  I was thorougly transported by this Rhoden's tribute to Bowie's legacy & his own choreography.  I'm going back.  I will see the future installments on this magnificient work and its chchchanges.  I felt full of life and young again.