Patio Plastico Plus | 2005

Poster: Dominic Episcopo

Cinemagic Movie Theater on 38th and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia Fringe Festival

The New Yorker
September 2005

Following in the footsteps of his mentor, the choreographer Moses Pendleton, this former member of MOMIX creates suites of surreal vignettes filled with whimsy and made possible by his dancers’ acrobatic skill. Each segment has a theme and a set of tools: in one, dancers crawl under garbage pails and enact a trash-can ballet; in another, a tutu-clad ballerina hovers just above the floor, defying gravity. Yet another tableau vivant is inspired by the Surrealist paintings of Dorothea Tanning. A medley of music—bossa nova, rock, opera—sets the mood.