Moving Research: slip

Through May 18, $15, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., myspace.com/movingresearch, danceboxoffice.com.

by Shaun Brady

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Published: May 6, 2008

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The name of dancer/choreographer Meg Foley's new company, Moving Research, could be read a couple of different ways. Is it an investigation into the mechanics of ambulation, or an act of research that triggers an emotional response? Foley says the ambiguity is both deliberate and appropriate.

"That title made sense to me because it was both elusive and straightforward, which is sort of the way I think of my own work," Foley says. "The dances that I make don't have proscribed readings, so I'm interested in the story that people tell themselves or the contexts that people create when they see them."

Foley will inaugurate Moving Research with a new piece, slip, which will explore that concept of viewer perception. The audience will be free to roam the space, in which six dancers will move around a large sculpture, in and out of the field of vision. By creating a piece that seems to wander in from behind the audience, having no distinct beginning or end and free of the proscenium arch, Foley seeks to alter the relationship between dancer and viewer.

"I'm curious about dances that suggest that maybe the audience doesn't even need to be there for the dance to exist," she says, "or that the dance existed long before the audience arrived and will continue to exist after they leave."

Through May 18, $15, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., myspace.com/movingresearch, danceboxoffice.com.

 

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