A repertory-based full-time company, Gibney Dance Company invites choreographers to create original works or remount older ones on them. This year’s guest choreographers were Stefanie Batten Bland and Peter Chu (November 14-16) in the evening titled: “BOTH/AND.” In both works, the Company (Amy Miller, Nigel Campbell, Zultari Gomez, Jesse Obremski, Jacob Thoman and Leal Zielińska) looks good. Chu’s less strong work, jam packed with repeating canons, lines and unison movements, Forming Out, closed the program. The highlight of the evening was Batten Bland’s 5 St. Fifperhanway Place Apt. 2A wherein the Company really show as “collaborators.” Batten Bland often includes prop(s) in her works, here it was a large bed. With a bed on wheels, and six very active bodies as an equal partner, anything could happen and the collaborators allow for this. So, in 5 St. Fifperhanway Place… they invite everyone in during their bedtime frolicking. Costumed in pajamas, the dance happens on and off the bed in many groupings. All five are sometimes tucked under the sheets, feet poked out, they feign pillow fights, and move from sequence to sequence that envelope the space, and their luscious dance is non-stop from start to finish.
5 St. Fifperhanway Place Apt 2A is the second work in a new series. The original score is by Grant Cutler, and costumes are by Shane Ballard.
5 St. Fifperhanway Place Apt 2A is the second work in a new series. The original score is by Grant Cutler, and costumes are by Shane Ballard.
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