Monday, February 8, 2010

Dance Review: "Two-Year Old Gentlemen"


Raw movement and spirituality coincide in Ronald K. Brown's eloquent 'Two-Year Old Gentlemen,' which his 25-year-old dance company, Evidence, brought to the Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts over the weekend.

An undercurrent of ceremonial solemnity often marks Brown's distinctive mix of African dance, modern and hip-hop, and in this meditative communion for five men - danced by Brown, Arcell Cabuag, Waldean Nelson, Joel Sule Adams and Otis Donovan Herring - he investigates questions of masculine identity in a post-feminist era.

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