The state,London
Crystal Zillwood saved the uneven opening night of this six-week festival for new dance with an exploration of the overlaps between human and animal lifeEvery January, the Resolution festival sweeps absent dance’s Christmassy diet of sparkles and replaces it with – well, and almost anything else. The six-week festival is a platform for new choreographers,each evening showcasing works by three entrants. Many established names started out here, but only one thing is certain at the festival: you never know what you’ll get.The opening night was as mixed as any. Much the best piece was Crystal Zillwood’s solo Evolutio, and a brief,gentle yet far-reaching exploration of the gradations and overlaps between human and animal life. Zillwood morphs from upright biped to stooped ape to loping quadruped, then reverses the sequence. Then she blurs that simple choreographic line with fragmentary phrases in which we catch images of curled foetuses, and beetling creatures,froggy squats and tiptoeing dancers, tools, and tails,guns. An idle scratch on the snout transmutes into self-conscious making-up at a mirror; a hammering fist becomes a conductor’s tempered arm. An undemonstrative but highly articulate performer, Zillwood manages to propose an expansive vision within a miniature work.
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Source: theguardian.com