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| Ed Mock with Cecilia Marta, Amara Tabor-Smith and Pearl Ubungen.Photo by Bonnie Kamin |
How do you call up the ghost of a larger-than-life dance artist whose work inspired a generation? Choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith conducts a moving seance in "He Moved Swiftly But Gently Down the Not Too Crowded Street: Ed Mock and Other True Tales in a City That Once Was...," Saturday and next weekend in locations from Civic Center to the Mission District.
Presented by Dancers Group's Onsite series, which supports free large-scale, site-specific performances, the five-hour long show (you can join for as little or as much as you want - complete schedule and locations are at www.dancersgroup.org) takes the audience from 32 Page St., where the choreographer and teacher Ed Mock once had a studio, to the Valencia Street site of his favorite barbecue joint, to the ODC Theater. It's a bold undertaking that Tabor-Smith hopes will capture the spirit of the man.
"He was a magical person, a big spirit, and at the same time really approachable," says Tabor-Smith, who danced with his company, Ed Mock Dancers. "He didn't call himself a political choreographer, but he was part of that movement of dance in the '70s and '80s that was about truth-telling, experimentation and being bold - about the excitement that comes from risking failure and enjoying that."
"We are conjuring the spirit of Ed," she says with a smile, "and in the spirit of Ed, anything could happen."
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