It is so damn hard to get allegorical storytelling translated into movement. Images fall flat, or feel overweighted, or just so free-floating and random that the stage becomes an endless crazy carnival written in an unknowable tongue.
But here in Seattle, the legacy of great achievers in movement poetry (33 Fainting Spells, Pat Graney, Robert Davidson) continues in strong health this month with the full-evening premiere of “Man on the Beach” by Salt Horse. Trust me on this: you’ll never forget the mysterious, swollen moments of human struggle and satisfaction created by choreographers Beth Graczyk and Corrie Befort and musician Angelina Baldoz.
The show plays February 26th – 27th and March 5th – 6th, 8pm at the newly crowned Erickson Theater (on Harvard, between Pike and Pine). Tickets available through brownpapertickets.
I’ve written a review that’s running now on Crosscut.