{Dd} Response: The Satellite Collective at BAM Fisher

The Satellite Collective made its debut at BAM Fisher last week-end bringing twenty seven different artists in dance, music, writing and visual arts together to collaborate on different pieces. Though the program extended itself to pieces other than dance, such as live music performance, a short film, and a monologue, I am interested in focusing on the dance segments of the show because of my background and the nature of this site. The first dance all-female piece by Esme Boyce, Emergence, began with a projection of natural landscapes and birds evolving into one another. The dance commenced as the projection ceased and the four women in nude leotards moved in a progressive fashion, waiting for a previous dancer to finish a movement before initiating ones. The choreography was extremely line focused and built on geometric poses. It was a rather quiet dance, the dancers never veered into any emotional state or distress. It made me question their humanity at times. The climax came at the very end, when the initial images were projected over the dancers’ bodies that were clumped together, slowly shifting their structure in a Pilobolus-esque way. Viewing these images on their skin changed their natural shapes in a […]