“Sit, Kneel, Stand”
Gallim Dance
The Joyce Theatre
New York, New York
June 10, 2012
“Special Collections,” “Shimmering Islands”
Burr Johnson
Danspace Project
New York, New York
June 1, 2012
by Leigh Witchel
copyright © 2012 by Leigh Witchel
There are incremental paths to presenting your work in New York; Andrea Miller and Burr Johnson are on different ones at different points – but both are on the right track.
Miller, with her company Gallim Dance, has shown her work at New York Live Arts, but also at Fall for Dance and The Joyce, at first in shared evenings, most recently with her own show as part of the Gotham Dance Festival.
Her “Sit, Kneel, Stand” started even before the lights went down. A woman came in the house to the front of the aisle and started twisting, dislocating her joints in the hallmark of Miller’s movement style. She pushed against the lip of the stage – was she warming up, or trying to move it?