FLATLAND by Vanessa Justice Dance

This experimental dance piece, set to the eerie soundtrack of David Lynch's "Eraserhead," opens next week at the Joyce in Soho. I've seen it as a work in progress (my roomates Alli Ruskowski and Kendra Portier star in it), and its utterly stunning. Also very interesting to view the movement/repetition in this work as a continuing vein of Yvonne Rainer's influence on modern dance. Tickets are $18 and are available through www.joyce.org.
—Mollie McKinley

"FLATLAND casts a surrealist tone with implications of anxiety and beauty. Inspired by Edmund Burke's On the Sublime (1756), this evocative, layered work creates an alluring tension while juxtaposing different forms and mediums (dance, film, animation). The dance hatches a dream-like world of precise and pulsating movement set against white-washed walls and featuring sound from David Lynch's 1977 movie Eraserhead. Considered an open-text choreography, the suggestive work makes layers of association to allow it to be received uniquely by each viewer. FLATLAND further develops Ms. Justice's interest in a poetics based on perception. She is honing a relational approach to choreography where divergent sources of information meet and create a context for interplay." (from vanessajusticedance.org)

The original edit of the dance, performed at the Judson Church:


Preview for next week's final performances of the piece: