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[DANCE REVIEW] Bebe Miller Company at Jacob's Pillow
8.24.07
JACOB's PILLOW
Bebe Miller Company
Doris Duke Studio Theatre
August 23-26, 2007
Review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large for BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
(BECKET, Mass., August 24, 2007) -- Following by a week the disappointing multimedia performance of Bridgman/Packer, Bebe Miller's Landing/Place was a welcome tonic that made a dancegoer open his mind again to the possibilities of the use of video and animation in dance.
Miller's full-length, 70-minute program, featuring five dancers, composer Albert Mathias performing his score, and "motion capture" video and animation, wasn't always crystal clear, but the energy never flagged and it was full of surprises. Most importantly, even though the subject matter was ostensibly exploring one's sense of home, which in this case seems to have involved a journey from the Southern U.S. (with Mathias playing some suggestive bluesy riffs on his lap steel guitar) to Eritrea, from where Miller's ancestors hail, the dance never took itself so seriously that it wasn't able to laugh, or rather, provoke lighter moments.
If one thing was clear about the best programs at the Pillow this summer, it is that those that were willing to relax and laugh -- even while occasionally provoking or even shocking an audience -- were the best.
And Bebe Miller Company was one of them.
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