Batsheva

Batsheva

I didn’t care for this piece at all, mostly because the sounds that were played were annoying at times and distracting me from the dancing. This performance was awfully hard to follow; there were only small things I had observed. A main theme I got from this piece was how the dancers seemed to play with movement, experiment with it and then once they got the movement down they all started to pull it all together as a group. This gave me a feeling of innocence in the movement, so simple with no other agenda than to please themselves. It seemed to me that the dancers would start out slow, only doing a small movement at a time and then would eventually pick up the pace and go faster.
For instance, in the part of the piece where there was several different noises playing, each person did their own movement to a sound. It started out playing the sounds individually with one dancer moving to it. One man would lift his arm jerking it around in the air to what sounded like a jackhammer, and then he stood still. Afterward a woman would put both her hands on her bottom when there was a bang, and then she also stood still. So, all the dancers had their own movement to a particular sound, the more and more they did it, the faster it started to progress. Then all the sounds started to play together in a beat, along with the dancers doing their movement at the same time. Once all the sounds meshed together, and the movements combined, it all seemed to come together and bring a cohesive movement.
Another example is when composition started to count in a different language. The dancers hung over with there head facing the floor and arms dangling towards the ground. With each word the dancers would swing their arms to one side. Then they switched it up by correlating a movement to each number. For example, during the first word one of the dancers would move a certain way. Then the second word another dancer would move a different way. And again as they did it over and over...