"Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly"
Levydance
Dance Place
Washington, DC
January 23, 2010
by George Jackson
copyright 2010 by George Jackson
Was it a sign of these times - the economic recession which is proving to be a depression for the arts - that San Francisco's Benjamin Levy brought just two dancers on tour, himself and Aline Wachsmuth? A surfeit of multimedia (lighting changes, video projections, music tracks) and harassing the public (audience participation) didn't really compensate for the trained bodies of visits past. Yet ingenuity could be discerned in some sections of the company's new "EIAV". In section 2 (the "Intimate" part of the title), there was a novel ambiance for Levy - sexual passion.