Check out this great article in Rivet Magazine by the Seattle’s On the Board’s director, Lane Czaplinski, on Constanza Macras.
The Incredible Shrinking, Shifting, and Subtle Enterprise of Art
The theater lights go down, and a woman in a red dress walks to center stage. She’s lithe and beautiful and dances an athletic, salsa-tinged solo. All sorts of mayhem follow. Actors tell jokes and make pratfalls. Dancers gyrate sex club moves and music video choreography. A live band covers a Bon Jovi song while its singers eat saltine crackers. A projected video shows a woman clad in a bra and panties running through a warehouse screaming.
Constanza Macras’ BRICKLAND | photo by Thomas Aurin
Constanza Macras’ BRICKLAND | photo by Thomas Aurin
Welcome to the world of Berlin-based choreographer Constanza Macras and her company, Dorky Park. Macras is among the most unique and exciting voices on the contemporary performance scene. And yet, in that overdeveloped, overanalyzed world, there is hardly any blank conceptual or critical space for her to claim.
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