Fall Arts from A to Z
A primer to the season's best bets.
SOCIAL CHANGE. The UW’s resident professional dance troupe, Chamber Dance Company, heads into its 21st season of reviving historically significant pieces with a program that honors choreographers who’ve contributed to a forward-thinking society. Lynchtown, created by Charles Weidman in 1936, twists the bodies of hopping, stamping dancers in a reflection of mob hysteria; the late choreographer Eve Gentry shows concern for the plight of a homeless woman in her 1938 solo Tenant of the Street; Jane Dudley’s Harmonica Breakdown solo from the same year summons Depression-era despair with defeated shuffles set to the blues of renowned musicians Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee; Donald McKayle gives sonorous Southern chain-gang songs physical life in his 1959 Dink’s Blues; and the evening closes with Bill T. Jones’s D-Man in the Waters, a 1989 memorial to a company member who died of AIDS. October 22–25, Meany Theater, 206-543-4880; depts.washington.edu/uwdance/cdc.html
Donald McKayle’s Rainbow Round My Shoulder, the piece from which Dink’s Blues is taken:
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Published: September 2009
Look at his beautiful eye….wink