OK, I know that this week is hopping all over New York City and folks are hard pressed to make choices. It’s one of the blessings of living in this always happening arts town. But you have three more nights, now thru Saturday, October 15th to come to the Harlem Stage Gatehouse and see Visible.
The international cast of dancers moves us and themselves through a range of experiences that layer the pedestrian with the poetic and the familiar with the unknown with exceptional skill and expression. The world premiere of this new dance work created by Nora Chipaumire and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is dynamic, tough, painful and celebratory. We arrive with them in this babel, asking who we are and who the other is – we land without a guide or an answer. I should say this is not the party line; it is not what the choreographers have said to me. It is what I felt as I watched with excitement the unveiling.
Others in the audience were making plans to come back. I am lucky I work here. I do hope that if you are one of those making a choice of what to do over the next three days, that you decide to come to Harlem to see Visible.
Patricia Cruz,
Executive Director