Reviewed by Christopher Atamian, SLSG Experimental Dance Critic
Watching the delightfully down-to-earth Laura Pawel Dance Company is an intensely comforting experience, like sitting down to a meal with an old friend, or in this case, seven old friends as it were. Better than being guillotined? Most definitely!
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence at a time when the school produced a cadre of dance pioneers including Lucinda Childs and Meredith Monk, Pawel has been on the New York City dance scene since the late 1960’s, part of the post-Judson Church movement that was more interested in everyday movement and dialogue than virtuoso jumps or classical dance technique. The company members are all well above forty today and a few have what can only be considered eccentric day jobs for a dancer: Emily Kistler, for one, is an operating room nurse…
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