On the Fringe, Off the Grid: Generate.Degenerate, reviewed

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On the Fringe, Off the Grid: Generate.Degenerate, reviewed

POSTED: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 3:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Dance On the Fringe

Fringe volunteer/CP contributor K. Ross Hoffman checked out the Sept. 13 performance of Generate.Degenerate, part of Fringe's Off the Grid festival. (He previewed the micro-fest here.) Remember to check out citypaper.net/fringe for more review coverage.

Bill Hebert/mirodancetheatre.org

Miro Dance Theatre's contribution to the eco-focused Off the Grid festival is as technologically oriented as anything else in the fest. It looks, however, not to the greenable machinable future but rather to rickety antiquity, with a hand-cranked phonograph struggling to provide faltering sound from scratchy shellacs and a pair of stationary bicycles wired to generate flickery illumination. Lights and music, typically speaking, tend to be subservient to the 'performance' proper ' in this case a single dancer, in a simple sheath, enacting balletically gracious movement. Thus delicately derived, they become instead its emotional crux, the prime agents of isolated, ruminative sepia ambience.

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