Goldstar

• Rated 4.0
• Written on Apr 28 2009

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.

• Rated 4.0
• Written on Apr 19 2009

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.

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.

• Rated 1.0
• Written on Apr 20 2009

interesting and touching subject, but the preformance level was less than a high school level. very amature.