The Village Voice, December 8th, 2004
THECHAIRS
By Eugene Ionesco
BAM Harvey Theater
ogiFulton Street
Closed
SITTINGBULL
Veteran dance-theater duo plays fast and loose with Ionesco
A video in the opening sequence of The Chairs documents David Gordon and Valda Setterfield's long artistic history with folding chairs. While a cellist onstage plays Michael Gordon's soft elegies, footage shows the dancers in their studio wedging into metal chairs, climbing on them, stepping and jumping over them, burrowing through them, rattling them, walking and crawling with them. The seats comprise a running motif in the dance-theater pieces ...
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