SandyMcKean

Thanks Joshua Looks like there are coming to Vancouver in March 21-24, but $##$@$%^$ I will be in Jackson Hole all that week skiing my little heart out. I wonder if they ever come to Seattle? I will email a query to them asking that.

Anyone know where I can find a schedule of when this group performs and where? The www.independance.co.uk/artists/rubberbandancegroup.htm site does not seem to include dates or venues. I saw Pilobolus for the first time this summer at UW and want more of the same (well, OK, maybe similar then )!

I saw Friday's performance (2/3). What a wonderful mixed program. I didn't get "transported" by all of it, but "Nine Sinatra Songs" was brilliant IMHO. I've always loved Tharp. She was certainly there last nite, but I've never seen her choreography so subtly subdued under a style so prosaic as ballroom dancing. I thought "here is a genius at work". I'm no expert, but I can't imagine too many ballet companies that could field the talent it must take to pull a ballet like Nine Songs off so well. They did humor, elegance, athleticism, sensuality, technique, energy, SPEED all at once nearly all the time. I rose to my feet (something I don't often do). For me seeing Nakamura and Wevers was breath-taking. Lesley Rausch is someone who I watch and she always blows me away as a corp dancer. The combo of Imler and Porretta was brilliant casting IMO -- so different on the surface, but so alike underneath (just like the work itself). In addition, I can't say enough about the high calibre of skill shown in Red Angels: Kobres & Maraval, and Nakamura & Porretta. P.S. I'm brand new here.....just stumbled on this forum. Glad to know it's here.