I think the show was too avant garde for most people. I enjoyed it and like the themes of gender, age, patriarchy that were threaded through the dance pieces. A few of them were a bit repetitive, but overall I found it moving and beautiful. The music was also terrific.

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I enjoyed most of this performance as the dancers were immensely talented and outstanding. The petite female dance was amazing especially when she danced with the male dancers. She is very strong and stood her own. I would give her a perfect rating.

I did not care for the whole setting up of water bottles routine while the choreographer walked all over the stage and talked with a water bottle on his head. It broke up the feel of the entire show and that part dragged. They should really cut all of that out. It would have benefited from an intermission as well.

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This choregraphic event was a collaboration between and African-American artist and an African artist from Dakar, Senegal. It had all of the elements for a successful piece. Still, it was not successful. It started with Reggie walking up and down the stage talking about the collaboration balancing a bottle of water on his head and taking his jacket on and off. I knew we were in trouble then. Any dance concert that starts with an explanation rather than dancers dancing would cause trepidation to arise. I wanted to see dancing. I did not want to hear from Reggie's ego. The choreogrpahy, when it occured in bits and pieces here and there was stunning. The dancers were also stunning. Extremely talented. The event was very well produced. The music was fantastic. I wish I could buy the soundtrack. Still, the evening was littered (literally) with hundreds of water bottles they had on stage; setting them up, throwing them around, getting them off stage. This was an unfortunate gimmick that totally did not work for me. They became a nuiscance rather than a compliment to the piece. I was sitting there several times wondering when we were going to see some actual dance. Annoyance arose regularly. This was compounded by the fact that they shone bright stage lights into the audience, blinding the spectators. It was as if they were trying to cause us discomfort. That would be fine if we knew why. Never found out. Reggie insulted my intelligence from the start. I wanted to leave. Several audiences members did walk out. When I arrived at the theatre, I wondered why there we so many empty seats, why at the end of their run it had not sold out. Once I left, I knew the answer. Both choreographers were working from the neck up. It was all concept and no heart. At one point some stunning, marvelous African music was played and the dancers were laying around on the stage not dancing. What a shame. This was not a successful collaboration. I am guessing the two men choregraphing spent more time arguing than they did choreographing. We were told it took three years to create. If it took three years for them to come up with what they had, they should probably consider different work. Thank heaven for Goldstar. Had I paid full price, I would have left angry as well as annoyed.

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I hate to say this, but the event was a big disappointment, a very inconsistent experience: The pieces were supposedly three years in the making and it looked as if the company had just started rehearsing and improvising a couple of months ago. There were a few images that stuck with me, a couple of very beautiful dance pieces but for the most part it was pretty forgettable and boring. Not enough dance, too much talk and moving props around the stage. When Reggie Wilson took a full ten or fifteen minutes walking around the stage addressing the audience and explaining what the idea behind the performance we were about to see was, I should have known we were in trouble. He should have spent more time choreographing and less talking. Maybe then there wouldn't have been the need to spell out his intentions.

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