Leave it to David Dorfman to make all things seem just fine. In his latest work, Aroundtown at BAM (November 8 – 11), there was live and upbeat music, cheerful artwork, bright costumes and the dancers matched this prescribed spirit with sad and funny tales with a promise of good in the end. From clapping out rhythms that solidified their one-ness before the band begins, to the daring and seasoned partnering, they set the tone evening would hold. They were there to dance “…for that’s what you’re here to see,” they reminded us. The audience was welcomed to share in the joy and the witnessing too. With a big smile, biting her bottom lip, “I see you,” Jasmine Hearn stopped everything to say, or “Today I get to be here with all of this love,” said Simon Thomas-Train. The performers, Dorfman, Hearn, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Nik Owens, Kendra Portier, Thomas-Train, Aya Wilson with guest Lisa Race, were full with their sharing; they were real people doing everyday things.
The musicians were: Sam Crawford, Liz de Lise, Dorfman, Zeb Gould and Jeff Hudgins. The projected artwork was by Saleh Belgaumi, Kelley Fairman, Rachael Lieblein-Jurala and Ruy Zambrano, and costumes were Ásta Hostetter. The dramaturg was Anne Davison.
The musicians were: Sam Crawford, Liz de Lise, Dorfman, Zeb Gould and Jeff Hudgins. The projected artwork was by Saleh Belgaumi, Kelley Fairman, Rachael Lieblein-Jurala and Ruy Zambrano, and costumes were Ásta Hostetter. The dramaturg was Anne Davison.
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