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| An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ | An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ |
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| One evening last month at Pageant, a performance space in Brooklyn, a line of people spilled down a flight of stairs and onto the sidewalk below. The occasion? A dance by a choreography start-up called SECT, inc. It was the group’s first ensemble work, and it had a specific aim: to explore both the individuality of its dancers and space. | One evening last month at Pageant, a performance space in Brooklyn, a line of people spilled down a flight of stairs and onto the sidewalk below. The occasion? A dance by a choreography start-up called SECT, inc. It was the group’s first ensemble work, and it had a specific aim: to explore both the individuality of its dancers and space. |
| Space, as it happened, was shrinking by the minute. By the time all those on the wait list were planted in their seats — meaning spread across the floor — the stage area had lost a decent chunk of depth. | Space, as it happened, was shrinking by the minute. By the time all those on the wait list were planted in their seats — meaning spread across the floor — the stage area had lost a decent chunk of depth. |
| Even so, as the lights went down, the dance came to glittering life as its performers filled Pageant with emphatic footwork and low kicks to create a hypnotic rhythm. They looked like enchanted folk dancers as they etched linear patterns and lines onto the floor with razor precision. Within this tightly choreographed tapestry was exuberance and urgency but also a sense of confinement. | Even so, as the lights went down, the dance came to glittering life as its performers filled Pageant with emphatic footwork and low kicks to create a hypnotic rhythm. They looked like enchanted folk dancers as they etched linear patterns and lines onto the floor with razor precision. Within this tightly choreographed tapestry was exuberance and urgency but also a sense of confinement. |
| That feeling of walls closing in on you? It was intentional and made possible by the place in which the dance was created: Pageant — “a dream of a theater that has been handed to us by these really generous and special friends,” Josie Bettman, who directs SECT, inc., with Lavinia Eloise Bruce, said later. | That feeling of walls closing in on you? It was intentional and made possible by the place in which the dance was created: Pageant — “a dream of a theater that has been handed to us by these really generous and special friends,” Josie Bettman, who directs SECT, inc., with Lavinia Eloise Bruce, said later. |
| What is Pageant? It doesn’t seem right to nail it down. It’s many necessary things: an artist-run performance space on Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg. A community. A celebration of imagination and craft. |