Wendy Osserman and her dancers celebrate the strangeness of being alive. They relish a collaborative process which involves improvisation, writing, reacting to scientific articles, examples of contemporary poetry and visual art through the ages. Osserman conveys her struggle to comprehend current events and history with drama and humor, confusing the personal with the political.
Fire is a recurrent image embodied by the dancers in Combustion, a new piece for five. As she attempts to digest inflamatory statements and actions by our President and his followers, Osserman - like many of us - has felt consumed with worry, shock, anger and a need to make sense of current events.
Fire is a recurrent image embodied by the dancers in Combustion, a new piece for five. As she attempts to digest inflamatory statements and actions by our President and his followers, Osserman - like many of us - has felt consumed with worry, shock, anger and a need to make sense of current events.
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WENDY OSSERMAN DANCE COMPANY has been presented since 1976 in most NYC dance venues including 92nd Street Y, DanceNow Joe's Pub, BAC, Dixon Place, DTW, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, La MaMa, and Theater for the New City. WODC has toured nationally and internationally, performing and teaching in colleges, schools, and festivals.
Vaccinated: These movements came to me and I followed them - inspired by Merce Cunningham, who in the film recently made about him said something like don't think about the meaning, just make movement; "it will be expressive." That freed me to focus more intensely on form and find I had not lost but gained from his advice.
One piece stands out particularly, a solo that joins dance to stand-up comedy, containing the artist's utterly savory soliloquy and as much physicality as you could wish for. Osserman, alone in a spotlight, starts twisting, kicking, and clawing, as if the beast in her were taking over. It takes a while to realize that what she's growling out and licking her chops over is 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
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