mini-gestures and maximum impact
I'll be perfectly honest: since moving to Holland, I've seen a lot of bad dance. This is not commentary on the quality of dance in Holland, but just acknowledgment that there is a lot more dance happening here than other places, so, there's going to be more unsuccessful attempts at it too. Kind of like laptop music in Japan.
But Saturday night at OT301, I saw a group that blew me away. Magpie Dance and Music had a great show, so punk but totally contemporary and smart, with loud percussive Glenn Branca-esque guitarists, and Yannis Kyriakides on laptop making pure electronic sounds. And it just worked, in an uncompromising and totally focused way. If anyone from Magpie should stumble onto this, I'd love to work with you guys!!