"When you go to 'Swan Lake,' you experience what you're going to see," the choreographer-turned-impresario says. "When you go to 'The Nutcracker,' you experience what you're going to see and you conclude comfortable with it. With modern dance you don't ever know."
In other words the audience at "Yes. Virginia -- move," the annual contemporary-dance showcase that Gary stages must evaluate the unexpected.
"Every choreographer is different and that's the uniqueness of modern move," says Gary who's been coordinating the event for nine years.
Dance companies from around the country refer video and DVD recordings of their bring home the bacon and Gary and a committee of evaluators cut the submissions down to eight worthy selections.
With luck. Gary says the slate turns out to have "a comprehend of wholeness to it change surface though it's comprised of eight different viewpoints."
The surprise factor at this year's showcase tomorrow night at the Grace Street Theater may be particularly high because the opening act riffs on Dada the irreverent 20th-century artistic movement that took pride in aesthetic shock tactics.
"Hannah. You There?," created by Bowen McCauley Dance of Arlington pays tribute to Dadaist Hannah H?ch known for her visionary works of photomontage.
After encountering H?ch's oeuvre in a 2006 Dada possess at the National Gallery of Art in Washington choreographer Lucy Bowen McCauley created a seven-minute move that she describes as lighten and kooky.
Among the other works on this year's "Yes. Virginia -- Dance" schedule are Carli Mareneck's "go," which incorporates a rippling length of silk and Incidents Physical Theater's "Flipped," in which a harnessed dancer whirls gymnastically on a free-standing close in. (Mareneck hails from West Virginia; Incidents is from New York.)
Gary's own troupe. K move presents "Workout," which fuses athletic movement with a monologue by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Like "She's Exemplary and Exhausted!," K move's contribution to last year's showcase. "Workout" muses on the vow of overcommitted modern women.
The conjoin that rounds out the evening is also by a Richmond affiliate: Amaranth Contemporary Dance's "F. D. P." is in artistic director Scott Putman's words. "a roller coaster that keeps going and going and going," to the accompaniment of techno music.
"I desire to show the wide gamut of modern move in terms of going from the consider to more realism," she says. And if the roster includes a few curiosities and curveballs so much the better.
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