Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: Small Dances About Big Ideas
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco -- Kanbar Hall (3200 California St. San Francisco, CA 94118)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
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- FREE - $18.00*
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All offers for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange have expired.
The last date listed for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange was Sunday April 19, 2009 / 7:00pm.
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Easy parking at the JCC
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Casual
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Not suitable for a fun ight out, depressing.
Goldstar Member Reviews
Lynne Windfeldt
The best presentation of dance movement, space and message around in a long time.Written on Apr 20 2009
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Ariel Weintraub
I loved this piece and would highly recommend seeing this company. They are political and take really interesting risks as part of the performance. Be ready to think about how dance can be a transformative art--this is a company that really does it.Written on Apr 28 2009
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dance fan
Lawyers are rarely portrayed as heroes and almost never appear in dance. In Small Ideas, two of the most interesting characters are indeed lawyers. Rafal Lemkin, a Polish laywer of Jewish descent, coined the term genocide and spent his career fighting for justice. Dance is an ideal medium to study his passion for the subject--you feel his frustration at not being heard and his crumpling feelings of being overwhelmed. I also especially liked the gravitas of one of the judges as he alternately approached and then was repelled by the desk where he would listen to the atrocities of the Nuremberg trials.Written on Apr 19 2009
These are only two of the fascinating characters in Small Ideas. You'll discover many more in this one-hour piece. Whether or not you love or hate the audience participation part, you'll find yourself moved and informed, with much to discuss afterward. Although some of the audience members I spoke with felt that the piece was unfinished and bemoaned the lack of 'next steps' in response to the piece's call to action, I felt that it's a unique and worthy piece for the quality of the characters and the images I'm still thinking about a day later.
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interesting and touching subject, but the preformance level was less than a high school level. very amature.Written on Apr 20 2009
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More Information About Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Quotes & Highlights
- “Liz Lerman has made a vibrant, provocative career out of fixing on a moment…and making it come alive in simple, plain-spoken dance.” --New York Times
Description
<p>What are the limits of human compassion? When atrocity occurs, what separates the bystanders from the upstanders? Commissioned by Harvard Law School for the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, Liz Lerman’s Small Dances About Big Ideas uses movement, spoken word and documentary soundscape to examine the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust and more recent atrocities in places like Bosnia and Rwanda.</p>
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