From the YouTube files of Maurice Causey ...
Choreographer: Maurice Causey
Music/Original Composition: Mikhail Karikis
Costumes: Marlowe Bassett
Company C Ballet
Company C Contemporary Ballet review: no wincing
DANCE REVIEW
Allan Ulrich, Chronicle Dance Correspondent
Maurice Causey, whose "Ominous Rumblings of Discontent" was premiered Friday, comes to us from William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt, and the piece bears a superficial similarity in its menacing atmospherics to the output of his former boss.
But Causey derives tension, not from virtuoso pointe work, but from engaging the entire bodies of his eight dancers in exchanges that suggest a degree of improvisation. Mikhail Karikis' commissioned score, a gripping mix of instrumental sounds, electronics and vocalizations, seems an integral part of the project, as the dancers, all in slinky black and grays, occasionally respond to it with utterances of their own.
An apocalyptic aura envelops Causey's performers who melt into treacherous lifts, constantly rearrange their spatial universe, tantalize us with passing symmetries and iterate and reiterate key imagery. Dancers constantly hugging themselves evoke unendurable chill, rampant narcissism or a bit a both. Patrick Toebe's lighting scheme is a plus.
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