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(Dance Review) CHUNKY MOVE
7.1.05
CHUNKY MOVE
Jacob's Pillow Dance
Becket, Mass.
Doris Duke Studio Theatre
June 30-July 3, 2005
Program: "Tense Dave"
Who is Dave, and why is he so tense?
Actually, it doesn't really matter. Besides bearing a more than vague aesthetic similarity to namesakes David Byrne and David Lynch, the main character of "Tense Dave" is a Beckettian everyman, reluctantly sucked into the seamy vortex of his neighbor's bizarre lives.
In he hands of the Australian dance collective, Chunky Move (my fingers keep wanting to type Chunky Monkey, but that's because they're tense), this plays itself out in the course of an intriguing, funny, disturbing, ultimately passionate short hour, the best of which challenges dancers and audience alike -- to great reward -- on a revolving stage that offers simultaneous vignettes of five different lives.
Dave seemingly existed in his own world, a blank, empty tabula rasa, as opposed to his quirky neighbors, to each of whom we are introduced in all their flagrant delirium.
Giving new meaning to "no one knows what goes on behind closed doors" (and, after seeing this, you won't want to), "Tense Dave" deals with the walls we build around ourselves and the walls we take down. Playing itself out like some sort of kabuki version of "Eraserhead" in vignettes that variously include dance, dialogue, music, and sound effect, and range stylistically from kung fu to puppetry, the program, which poses intense physical and emotional demands on the performers, even moreso than the somewhat challenged audience, explodes in an orgy of violence and destruction towards the end, leaving viewers with a new appreciation of Robert Frost's dictum, "good fences make good neighbors."
So do solid plaster walls.
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