Ford Amphitheatre (Hollywood, CA)
The Ford Amphitheatre hosts Sans Detour, a pair of pieces by two innovative, entertaining dance companies. Catch Me Bird's husband-wife duo hilariously blurs on- and off-stage lives through the daring aerial choreography of Silk. Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project intertwines West African dance and post-modern dance theater with live music to relate a heroic journalist's true story in the ensemble piece Disorder Inside Order.
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The last date listed for Catch Me Bird and Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project: Sans Detour was Friday September 5, 2008 / 8:30pm. (view all dates)
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Its was very slow from the start and in the eatting area were flying bugs everywhere.
The magical setting of the Ford made the two performances fun to watch. I do agree with the full page review in the Times this morning that the dancing and choreography was different enough to keep me glued to my seat.
although it was good but not great. if i paid full price i wouldnt be happy...but it was goldstar!!! free so it made it all better.
This event was fabulous. It has a little bit of everything. the Ford is a wonderful venue.
Awesome, awesome, awesome... instant fan and now want to catch their future shows.
My wife and I loved it!! Thank you for the many selections of unique artistry and talent
This was a very unique, exciting performance.
The first acts were fine, but nothing very original.
However the last act was fabulous- Extremely talented dancers, original and interesting choreography, and funny banter. The only criticism I would have is that the audience participation section was overly long and much less interesting than the performers.
I highly recommend seeing this act whenever you can.
Excellent show. Very creative and beautiful. Highly recommend.
Beautiful and sweet!
Although my friend and I didn't understand everything that is happening at the first play or dance, we liked the music and the way they danced. The second play was very nice; we enjoyed the interaction between the couple. Thanks again for sharing.
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
It was not at all what I had expected. I was expecting something like circus and it was more like a play.
And the dancing before the main show was good but not unbelievable...
The show wasn't as high of a caliber as the H. Bowl but it was definitely more intimate. People were there for the show and I didn't feel like I was in Hollywood (thank god) for one second.
This event was horrible, it was literally so bad that as my girlfriend and I were leaving the event (halfway through I might add) we saw several people in their cars sleeping. This leads to another problem, there wasn't enough parking spaces for all the guests so they were forced to cram everyone's cars in and therefore you couldn't even leave when you wanted to and even when everyone was leaving it took forever to get out of the parking lot.
The couple was particularly enchanting and engaging, as well as super-talented.
Didn't care for the first group, too avantgarde for my taste. I thought it would be more West African dancing than interpretive.
Loved Baker & Tarpaga.
This was a very enjoyable dance performance, but I had some expectations going in that were not met.
I was disappointed the first piece (Disorder Inside Order) was so cerebral. It was very skillful, but was one of those dances that tells a story, but you have to read the paybill to know what the heck the story is supposed to be telling. I'm not a big fan of that type of dance and is the main reason I didn't give the show more stars.
The 2nd piece Silk was a delight. Both performers were very skilled and it was a fun mix of dance and theatre, very comedic, the arial work was lovely, I just wish there had been more of it. I thought from the ad, there would be more arial work. The image shown for the show (of the two dancers in the air) was NOT in the show itself. Still, if I was only reviewing the 2nd piece I would give it 4 stars.
WISH IT HAD MORE DANCING
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The 1241-seat outdoor Ford Amphitheatre is set against a backdrop of cypresses and chaparral in the Hollywood Hills. It is relatively intimate: no patron is more than 96 feet away from the stage. Music, dance, film, theatre and family events are presented during the summer months. The Ford Amphitheatre Season is a program of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Intrepid, interracial dance couples take the stage in a dance theater spectacle that expresses a heroic West African journalist's true story and combines innovative movement with “reality performance” at the Ford Amphitheatre.
This split bill features the vanguard husband and wife teams of: Catch Me Bird, daring duet company that fuses dance theater and aerial choreography, and Baker and Tarpaga Dance Project, LA's premier African Contemporary Dance Theater company, who combine their passion and politics with highly theatrical movement for a visceral narrative, blending real life events with West African dance and post-modern dance theater. Border and boundary crossing appears in their multi-ethnic, intimate relationships, further highlighted by their movement and aesthetics.
For the first time in Ford Amphitheatre history Catch Me Bird dancers will perform aerial movement from the Ford’s proscenium towers. Catch Me Bird will utilize the architecture and unique setting at the Ford to create a site-specific aerial spectacle, highlighting the performers at the apex of the two towers. The concert will feature the world premiere of Silk, the latest chronicle in Catch Me Bird’s reality performance series. Silk, is the traditional element of the fourth anniversary gift and commemorates the couple’s real 4th wedding anniversary. Silk, a confessional, humorous and intimate look at the real communication between a wife and husband, and a collaborative working pair. The boundaries between their onstage and offstage lives are blurred, offering evidence of their special brand of lunacy.
The work of Catch Me Bird is based on the actual marriage of the two performers four years ago, and the shifting dynamics between the public spectacle and the personal reality.
Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project premieres “Gnama Gnama Mana Mana Kono/Disorder Inside Order”, a startling expression of the events surrounding the 1998 assassination of Norbert Zongo, a highly respected Burkinabe journalist who exposed the corruption of government officials. The piece features live griot drumming and a melding of West African and post modern dance by six dancers: Olivier Tarpaga, Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Shelly Wilcox, Josette Wiggans, Wilifred Souly and Laurel Fanya House. The movement maintains the traditional West African grounded stance while exploring the floor and the air.
Catch Me Bird, called a “daredevil duo” by the LA Weekly, combines athletic, contemporary, and aerial dance with words and audience surprises to present the madcap reality of a true marriage. Co-founders, C. Derrick Jones and Nehara Kalev, debuted their first full length evening work in 2004, which was also their actual wedding. This marked the birth of "Reality Performance". Since then, the pair has continued to travel the world with their brand of performance, choreography and educational programming.
Baker and Tarpaga Dance Project is a transnational contemporary dance company based in Los Angeles, California and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Drawing from West African and post-modern dance, the dancers and musicians perform rhythmic intensity with soulful expression. BT Dance Project’s work is provocative and highly physical addressing themes of immigration, displacement, love and the physical boundaries between violence and peace. BT Dance Project’s has been described as “a talented company that performs superlative choreographies of protest.” (Theworldly.com)