Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Choreographers take a quantum leap into physics

At first, the dancers step gingerly around the taut golden strings that crisscross the floor of ODC's theater space in the Mission. There's a low bubbling thrum in the air from musician and composer Albert Mathias' panoply of electronic instruments that gives the sense of a percolating atmosphere as Cherise Richards, Suzanne Lappas and Shannon Stewart experimentally twang and gather up various strands, nimbly threading their way through the web of bright yellow twine.

When choreographer Kathleen Hermesdorf gives the signal for the rehearsal to begin, however, the three lift fistfuls of string into a three-dimensional cat's cradle and begin marking out the twisting, vibrating phrases of Hermesdorf's latest work, "Fate + Longing =," a work that Motionlab will perform this week at ODC.

Read more on the Chronicle site.



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