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There was no thread cohering the event as a whole, nor were all of its parts necessarily site-specific works several of the works, in fact, seemed not to regard the context of the event or venue at all.

#Revolve reviews free#

The doors to the house opened, and the audience was free to roam among the various dance works being simultaneously performed inside and outside. Performers with painted faces ascended the lyra. After half an hour, a group of dancers gathered beneath the tree, their bare feet quickly becoming muddy as they danced a playful, eerie ritual. The weather was lovely, and the area around the large live oak was lit expectantly and flanked on one side by a rigged-up trapeze lyra (like an industrial-strength hula hoop fused with a trapeze, for aerial work) and on the other by a raised stage. Advertised as a 'party,' the event began with pre-show mingling – lubricated by a signature cocktail, the grapefruit-and-vodka greyhound, or 'Sparklehound' in this context, ladled out with red plastic cups – in the expansive front yard of the house.

Revolve Austin, an event presented by NunaMaana Immersive Dance Theatre and Verge Dance Company, gathered nine dance groups at the 19th-century Charles Johnson House, near Austin High. Revolve Austin: A Movement Display Charles Johnson House, 404 Atlanta Blipswitch members (l-r) Taryn Lavery, Alex Miller, Nathan Brumbaugh, and Lucy Wilson (Photo by Andrew Masi)