I highly recommend seeing the GIMP performance if you are in the NY City area. I saw a bit of it last summer and it's a beautiful and innovative dance performance. You can see a preview video of the performance here.GIMP's New York City premiere will be March 19-21, 2009 8 p.m. at Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand Street (at Pitt St.). The performers are pictured.
Here's what The GIMP Project says about itself:
An extraordinary landscape of limbs…eloquent, absent, truncated, nimble, crooked, prosthetic, sublime!…an evening of unexpected movement portraits.
Choreographer Heidi Latsky presents a roster of performers who embody unique physical virtuosity. Outstanding technique, raw beauty and the physical poetry of risk- taking, propel the artists and the audience into the collective unknown.
GIMP examines the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality; an elegant landscape of portraits, illuminating limbs to accentuate uncommon beauty, mystery and grace; the ways in which our bodies support and rebel.
GIMP confronts the audience with their preconceptions, challenging us to re-think accepted notions about dance, performance and body image. An exploration, that dives into the heart of difference, voyeurism and the unexpected.
•The Pedigree of Bill T. Jones
•The Lyrical Virtuosity of Heidi Latsky
•The Shattering of Stereotypes
