Point of View
Point of View
1981
About
Point of View is a Terminal City Dance collaboration with Henry Kucharzyk.
The People
Choreographer: Karen Jamieson
Composer: Henry Kucharzyk
Reviews
A general review of “new new works” performed by Terminal City Dance at the Western Front Lodge in October of 1980:
“…a kind of experimentalist’s music-and-dance variety show. Its range runs all the way from Karen Rimmer’s tortured, triumphant solo, Cantus, to Terry Hunter’s odd little piece of musical anthropomorphism, Creature (Hunter, in a black-and-white-striped Evelyn Roth creation that allows only the pink tip of his nose to show, accompanies his bee-like hopping by beating five drums attached to a star-shaped structure around him).
Rhythm and ritual play a large part in this program. So does the use of voice – chiefly sung, occasionally spoken – as both motive and accompaniment for the dances this three-member collective makes.
Most of the works were developed in collaboration with three composers – Michael Baker, who provided the support (at first lulling, then increasingly shrill and demanding) for Cantus; Phillip Werren, who provided the base for The Last Dance, in which Savannah Walling gives us some kind of agonized, sorrowful life; and Henry Kucharzyk, who did part of Point of View and the original version of the delightfully-daft closing work, Time Piece.
Experimental, for sure, but an exhilaration to watch. Tonight at 8:30, and again Oct. 24-26.”
- Max Wyman
“Troupe dancing on fertile ground”
The Province, Sunday, October 19, 1980