WENDY PERRON DANCE COMPANY
Still, the four dancers–Lisa Bush, Donald Fleming, Kumiko Kimoto, and Vicky Shick–managed, for the most part, to beat the avian competition and keep the audience concentrated on the dance.
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The entire performing area was separated from the audience by sheets of black net–to protect us from unwanted souvenirs from the pigeons or to protect the pigeons from us? The black netting gave the work a heavy look and it became even more disturbing when some of the pigeons flew into the mesh barrier. Would the pigeons hurt themselves? Who needed this additional worry at a dance performance? I’d really like to see Arena without the nets and pigeons. It was an interesting experiment, but the dance should really be able to stand on its own. I’m not sure, right now, whether it would hold together consistently without the feathered distractions.
