Company: CaZo Dance Company
Choreographers: Bridgette Borzillo, Dominque Bailey, Brayan Perez
Performers: Megan Ayers, Dominque Bailey, Bridgette Borzillo, Martha Hernandez, Brayan Perez
If you’re wondering what “Slingers” means in this context, you’re not alone. It’s some deep hipster slang that’s going to totally escape most of the audience. Fortunately, all you really need to know about that term is on display in the first sixty seconds of this performance. Rather than waste time misdirecting the audience with meaningless romantic gestures or faking some lyrical sensuality, this piece skips the foreplay and goes straight to the casual sex.
The piece opens with a hook-up scenario between two women. This is very engaging, partly because it’s two women but also because there are so many actorly touches. There are bits of awkwardness mixed with the attraction – self conscious primping (including bra adjustments), a blundered coupling with a failed lift. This was a skit that somehow, inexplicably, got choreographed as a dance. I’m still not sure how that happened or why it was so effective. The interactions were so interesting (including some faux oral), I found myself just accepting the movement creating them.
And it didn’t stop there. A back-lit shadow show treated us, and our imaginations, to an orgiastic scene with an impressive array of partner variations. In the end, there were five dancers on stage, including two men from the shadow show, and the ensemble pulled off a less outrageous, but certainly upbeat, ending.
The audacity of this piece was refreshing. It was consistently sexy, constantly entertaining and it “went there” with a sense of humor. This is the sort of inventive work we can only hope to see more of from this company.
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