Dance
Sorry/Please/No: A Dance for Survivors, Citizens, and Queens
By Anna Jayne KimmelJo Kreiter’s performance, Sorry/Please/No, opens conversation on restorative justice at the intersection of dance, activism, and abolition.
A Study of the Body
By Candice ThompsonFive rectangular screens hang down like stair steps hovering over the stage of Jerron Herman’s VITRUVIAN. Extending in a diagonal line, each screen displays the same drawing by contemporary artist Chella Man. A big nod to Leonardo DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man (c. 1490), the image depicts two superimposed sketches of Herman’s body. In an obvious departure from the classical image, the body is drafted as a quick sketch with legs of differing lengths that push past the circular frame, and shorter arms that fail to reach it.
Kilpatrick’s Imaginative Costumes, Activated
By Susan YungHudson Hall, built in the 1850s as Hudson’s first city hall, was designed to function as a Columbia County gathering place, with a post office, bank, lecture hall, and gallery. It continues to draw the public, albeit with performances in its splendid hall, recently renovated to incorporate modern amenities such as a/c and an elevator. With a flexible, gymnasium-like floor plus a raised proscenium stage, it hosts forward-looking events which eschew traditional models.
