Company: Guest Performer – Winner C2 Choreography Competition
Choreographer: Baylie MacRae
Performer: Baylie MacRae
Kudos to SCC for showcasing this talented alum. This was a brilliant piece, beautifully executed and something very real for the current crop of student dancers to aspire to. I hope she is in (or finds) a terrific professional company.
Soloist Baylie MacRae’s work deserves the recognition it has achieved, and doesn’t need my approval. It was premiered at {Mixtape} a Wild Feminist Playlist, in Atlanta, Georgia, and was a winner of the Creative Connections Choreography Competition, which placed it on the stage this evening.
As a choreographer/dancer, MacRae was the complete package. Her quality of movement was superb and her ability to isolate shapes and postures, break down a movement into its component parts and make each distinct – was all very impressive.
As background for the piece, she used a quote from G. D. Anderson: “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger, women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength”
MacRae repeatedly found moments that projected that “strong woman” sensibility – arms flexed, body solid – but she did it with such fluidity that it never became a caricatured pose and indeed challenged our perception of what constitutes strength.
I’m pretty sure you can’t teach a lot of that – both the range and the nuance. At some point, sheer talent must take over. Her ability to strike a strong, grounded pose and then follow it immediately with some fairy-induced, airy lightness was just so, so, so………
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