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Pittsburgh's Dance Alloy gets out of the house with a visit to Cincinnati
Full Circle
This weekend, CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATER (CDT) presents Pittsburgh's DANCE ALLOY. Five dancers headed by Artistic Director MARK TAYLOR will open the program with Sarah Skaggs' "Get Out of the House" to music from The Chemical Brothers. The high-energy work is a virtuosic combination of post-modern dance and club dancing with a rousing finish. "A movement might start out with a turn with the top of the head in one direction, and meanwhile the other part of the body is going in another direction," says Taylor. "It looks fabulous on the dancers."
His "Bodice Ripper" humorously deconstructs a romance novel. "It's very funny, two dancers essentially play all the stock characters," says Taylor. "It's also a little on the dark side, with twisted psyches and bizarre sexuality. My idea was to throw the book on the floor and put the pieces together in a different order."
One of Taylor's dancers, MICHAEL WALSH, is originally from Cincinnati, and audiences might remember him for his appearance in Shawn Womack Dance Projects' The Waltz is Dying. "It was great to work with Mark as choreographer," says Walsh, a former national champion cheerleader, noting Taylor's willingness to take input from his dancers. In "Nothing Like the Sun," Walsh solos to music from Frederick Delius and recorded text from Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard at the Close of Day."
Taylor, who is on his final tour as director for Dance Alloy, has had a longtime relationship with JEFFERSON JAMES, CDT's director. Taylor says he feels strong ties to Cincinnati, and this performance will be a fitting bookend to his directing career. "I began with Mark Taylor & Friends in 1983 and have directed Dance Alloy for 12 years -- I've been to Cincinnati numerous times and, in fact, the first touring performance I did with the company was coming to Cincinnati and performing at The Dance Hall," CDT's former location in Corryville.
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