Zenon founder Linda Z Andrews introduced the five pieces I saw last night at the Southern Theater for the last performance of Zenon Dance Company's spring program, celebrating their 25th year as a modern dance company in the Twin Cities. The quality of dancing was insanely good. A couple of the dancers are young and newer, but Greg Waletski has been in the company for 16 years, and anchored the show, dancing in four of the five pieces. I absolutely loved the the intensity of Susana Tambutti piece "Octopus" (tango deconstructed) and the playful back-and-forth in "The Secret Life of Walt and Kitty," both partner dances, both suggesting the social and ballroom dance worlds in ways we mere mortals could only dream of dancing them. ALL the dancers blew my socks off.
The first piece was "Men in Motion," commissioned from choreographer Seán Curran to be a showcase for the men of the company. I loved the music, opera arias by Haendel sung by counter-tenor David Daniels. "Ombra mai fu" has such stately phrases and such piercing beauty. Each dancer was given room to shine.
The Schubert Theater has created a web project about the process of creating "Men in Motion". There are video clips with interviews and footage that detail each step in the process from commission to performance. How does the company find a choreographer? how does the choreographer get to know the company? what about the costumes, lighting? the theater space? how is the dance created? who are the dancers, and how do they work with the choreographer? what is a rehearsal like? how hard is it to find work? \ After seeing their performance, I loved this clip with interviews of the four men of the company: Greg Waletski, and Bryan Godbout, Stephen Schroeder, and Eddie Oroyan.
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