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[DANCE REVIEW] Club Guy and Roni at Jacob's Pillow
7.6.07
JACOB’s PILLOW
Club Guy and Roni
Doris Duke Studio Theatre
July 5-8, 2007
Review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
(Becket, Mass., July 6, 2007) – The summer is still young—it’s still only the first week in July—but it’s hard to imagine there lies ahead a more vibrant, dynamic, exciting, and provocative performance anywhere in the Berkshires than this weekend’s program, “The Language of Walls (on the other side of day)” by the Israeli-by-way-of-Holland troupe, Club Guy and Roni, in the Doris Duke Studio Theatre.
Besides boasting six remarkable female dancer/athletes (one friend asked at the conclusion, “How many times did you fall in love tonight?” The answer: at least six), the piece, which included prerecorded sounds and music and live drumming Elad Cohen, was a remarkable composite of theater, surrealism, Houdini-like escape tricks, acrobatics, voiceover narration, singing, slapstick, with a wide-range of dance vocabulary—really the company’s own grammar—built upon modern, hip-hop, freestyle, and other genres.
Ostensibly set in an evening at a nightclub—apparently ladies night only—the hour-long work allowed for numerous solos, duets, and larger ensemble pieces. Some were darkly grim, even violent; others were magical and surprising; still others were comic; and the rest were exuberant celebrations of the sisterhood of dance.
No verbal description could possibly capture the colorful palette of set pieces nor the virtuosity of the dancers, in terms of their sheer strength and physicality, their traditional and contemporary dance training, and their penetrating portrayal of character.
We’ve come to expect the most groundbreaking, provocative works on the Doris Duke stage, and Club Guy and Roni did not let us down on that account. At the risk of belittling the group’s talent as foremost a dance ensemble, this program could also be a favorite of those who don’t particularly like dance—although it’s also clearly pegged for those who are open to puzzles and questions in their entertainment. Nothing is neatly tied up; but everything that happens is a genuine marvel and display of talent.
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