FRINGE REVIEW: Return Return Departure

POSTED: Friday, September 7, 2012, 2:30 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Dance On the Fringe

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: Return Return Departure

GROUP: Nichole Canuso Dance Company

GENRE: Dance

ATTENDED: Wed., Sept. 5, 6:30 p.m.

CLOSES: Fri., Sept. 21

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: NCDC returns to the Philly Fringe festival with a genre-bending work that explores the complexity of our basic human quests. Commissioned by the APS Museum, NCDC creates a series of duets and corresponding video, in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Tempus Fugit: Time Flies.

WE THINK: As a start to an evening (it's short, early and central enough that you can easily fit another, meatier show in the same night) or to the whole festival, there could hardly be a gentler, warmer welcome than NCDC's performance at the American Philosophical Society. Beginning with a small personal ritual (each audience member carries a rock and a flower from the APS gallery to the garden across the street) and concluding, sublimely and humbly, with tolling of the hour from a nearby bell tower, it's a thoughtful, multi-layered meditation on time, documentation and impermanence (that will itself, by design, evolve over the course of its run). But, equally, it's an opportunity just to sit in the grass for a moment and watch two elegant bodies in playful, graceful motion.

—K. Ross Hoffman

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