Dance Comes to Your Living Room
by Carrie Stern
The Brooklyn Eagle, April 18, 2008

Leaps float literally overhead, lifts hover above your lap, tiny gestures are visible, emotions palpable, turns ruffle your hair.

As real estate prices rocket upward, and high-priced housing and stores replace studios and alternative performance spaces, some choreographers are experimenting, performing in borrowed spaces. Choreographer Edisa Weeks/Delirious Dances is becoming an expert at it. "I was tired of spending a year working on a piece and only having 3 or 4 performances, more if we were lucky and got to tour. I wanted to find a paradigm where I wasn't dependent on presenters, where I could allow time for the dancers to grow into the work. And I was tired of people complaining that audiences aren't coming to the theater. So I thought, 'why not go to where people are, in their homes.' "

Since May 2006 Liaisons has been performed in 15 homes, most in Brooklyn, a few in Staten Island... Click here to read further...
 
 

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