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Weekly Planet's
Best of the Bay
BEST DANCE EVENT
Out and About
Other companies have come and gone,
but The Moving Current Dance
Collective remains, bringing the
dance-starved Tampa Bay area
innovative modern movement by local
and guest choreographers. In Out and
About, four choreographers presented
five separate pieces in which escape
was often the subtext: escape from
siblings, from the stressful noises
of the outside world, and from dance
itself. In ¨When I Rise,¨
choreographed by Cynthia Hennessy,
several sisters awoke in a single
bedroom, rolled and spun their
wheeled beds around the room,
pounced from one bed to the next,
and generally expressed their
frustration at having to share a
single space. In ¨Presence in
Absence,¨ the sounds of traffic,
alarm clocks and babies crying
propelled three dancers around the
stage; then the confusion gave way
to a tender duet, which was itself
followed by a conciliatory return of
the original dancers. In Hennessey's
¨Wing Catchers,¨ dance became a
metaphor for life's monotonous,
seemingly endless daily tasks. As
dancers tried to flee the deadening
routine, ¨wing catchers¨ kept
throwing them back into the fray.
Not every segment of the show was
about escape, though. Michael
Foley's ¨The Bath¨ explored in
loving detail the ritual of
preparing for a bath, and Jennifer
Nugent's ¨Peal¨ gave us Nugent
herself responding to an
ever-intensifying sound of bells.
Whatever the subject, Out and About
reminded us that there are some
ideas that only dance can express;
and that Moving Current deserves our
time and appreciation.
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