About the Dance
The choreography Ms. Kaye develops with the performers is based on non-matrixed human movement. Since it is derived from possibility, it continuously replenishes itself. Looking for unusual and surprising body motions, we observe ourselves and one another. Choosing actions and then developing them into new dance vocabulary is the basis for each new piece. This dialogue of conflicting patterns or relationships reflects our community’s curiosity about space and time. The slow evolution away from organic forms towards more complex, synthetic forms reflects the effect urban environment has had on our work. Much of the work is dominated by the conflict, and eventual assimilation of, order and disorder. The “wild-field”, as a structure, unconsciously parallels the activities of a busy airport where, informed by arrivals and departures, people perform multitudes of unrelated actions simultaneously. The work expands the boundaries of Western dance and is accessible to both mature and young audiences.
Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times has said of Pooh Kaye / Eccentric Motions Dance, “On the surface, dance by Pooh Kaye often appears anarchistic or even slyly animalistic, but Ms. Kaye has the eye of an artist, and much of her work, though it spills out across the stage with the teeming impulse of life itself, is extremely controlled and self-aware…”.
Photo credit: Tom Brazil
“Rebound About” by Pooh Kaye / Eccentric Motions Dance premiered as part of the American Dance Festival’s commissioning program, “Young Choreographers and Composers,” 1985.
Performers in the photograph: Felice Wolfzahn, Ginger Gillespie, Sascha Waltz, Mark Dendy, and Jaime Martinez
Choreography: Pooh Kaye
Performance: Davide Zambrano, Mark Dendy, Felice Wolfzahn, Ginger Gillespie, Amy Finkel, and Sanghi Wagner
Sound design: Elisabeth Ross Wingate
Music composition: Michael Kosch
Costumes: Robin Klingensmith
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Photo credit: Tom Brazil
“Cut Ups,” 1990 by Pooh Kaye / Eccentric Motions Dance
Choreography: Pooh Kaye and the performers
Original music: Chris Cochrane
Performance: Kendall Alway, Lynn Brown, Arianna Mertz, David Roe, and Kim Root
Costumes: Pooh Kaye
