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iPhoto caption: Amy Keating, Zorana Sadiq, Katherine Cullen, and Jean Yoon in 'Dance Nation.' Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Dance Nation vaults into the feral, ecstatic mess of girlhood
Played by a cast whose ages range widely, the characters exist in two tenses at once: present-day adolescence and retrospective memory, living these tender years shadowed by the adults they’ll become.
iPhoto caption: Connor Mitton and members of the company of 'Sex Dalmatian’s Hot Holiday Spectacular.' Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.
REVIEW: Sex Dalmatian’s Hot Holiday Spectacular is a peppermint-coated acid trip
Rock Bottom Movement’s surrealist mandate is on full display in this 15-dancer fantasia, which begins with an invitation to let go: “The only thing you need to know is not to know anything at all,” pronounces the Mayor of Sex Dalmatian, the evening’s narrator and the mayor of the titular canine’s mind.
iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Rock Bottom Movement
REVIEW: Rock Bottom Movement’s Sex Dalmatian takes offbeat ideas to subversive extremes
Sex Dalmatian is one of those productions I'd feel confident bringing any fellow young person to, whether or not they're a fan of the performing arts.