Thursday, September 9, 2010

Melt: a Site-Specific Dance Installation

I saw Melt on 29th of August in Salt Pile. It is a site-specific dance installation by Noémie Lafrance. When you first enter the site, you saw eight dancers hanging on the wall and melting under the sunset, which I think is pretty cool. Unfortunately, that first impression lost it's impressive-effect after five minutes. The half an hour show became boring.
However, it was an interesting experience to see how the whole choreography was developed specifically for the site. Since the site was right under the Manhattan bridge, they even danced to the trains rumbling noise.

and here is the New York Times review of the performance:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/arts/dance/21melt.html

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