DCDanceBlog

Are you like me? Have you sat in the audience at dance concerts and wished you could be much closer to the performers? Have you had to restrain yourself not go up to them afterwards, just to be able to see what you’ve observed from a distance up close? As if you wanted to try to touch with your own hands the magic you’ve just experienced during the performance.

If you are like me, this Friday is your chance to consume a dance performance in a space smaller than your living room. At Transformer Gallery (by Whole Foods on P between 14th and 15th) at 7pm, dance artists Daniel Burkholder, Ginger Wagg, Christine Stone Martin and Ilana Silverstein will perform a modified version of the work “My Ocean Is Never Blue”. It’s going to be a unique performance for many reasons, one of them being the closeness to the performers, and to be frank, I don’t think you wanna miss it.

Myself, I’ll be thousands of miles away from P street on Friday -Hortlax, in the North of Sweden, to be more precise- to bury my grand mother. But I will interogate Ilana about the details of it when I get back and hopefully see some video clips (Daniel, is someone filming this? Would be great to YouTube it. (Did I just make a verb out of YouTube? About time.))

But, so yeah, if you’re in DC on Friday night, check it out. There’s a big chance it’ll be one of the hottest contemporary dance performances taking place in DC his year. For sure, it’ll have the lowest ratio of square feet per performer/audience. That in itself is a must see.