The Green Table: Habañero Shakedown #4 conceived and directed by Liana C. Percoco
LinkUP Residency Fall Showcase at Links Hall
Friday September 27, 2013 at 7:00pm
Critical Response by Hanna M. Owens
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You look like a soccer player. Like you’d more likely be a soccer player or beach volleyball starter or something. Your movements swift and fluid with a lot of power to them. Your movements react to what their voices are saying, react to, coordinate with, or guide what their voices are saying so synchronized it’s hard to tell. You already tell us with your body alone what they tell us: in which ways the lung is attached to the diaphragm descending into the stomach then branching out into the inner side of the upper arm and extending down into the tip of the thumb. This is similar to the large intestine and similar to the heart. Your feet flat screech sticky on the floor your limbs create wind swinging quickly and then flexing, stagnant and shaking with momentum. Your eye contact holds with their voices, your anxiety over digesting this food palpable how this food will travel from your lung continuing into your diaphragm and down landing in your small intestine to then be shoved into your hip bone connecting with your elbow and knee there terminating at the nail of your second toe. Your breath is loud.
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In The Green Table, Liana C. Percoco offers us a performance of contemporary dance choreographed for five dancers, exploring “the social aspects of food and nourishment through the act of dining and consumption.” A soloist in the opening phrase (as described above) ruminates on the connectivity of the internal organs and their proximity to the outer skin, anxiously embellishing and rearranging. There is a table, apples, strawberries, tomatoes. She proceeds to welcome her four guests to a dinner party, attempting to accommodate each of their own individual apprehensions and neuroses around eating and digestion.
A greenist Yvonne Rainer with heightened food allergy awareness: This performance piece by Percoco has firm roots in modern and contemporary dance with its the use of everyday props, bare feet and street clothes, and its spatial organization of bodies and broader choreographed phrases. As learned from reading the program pamphlet, the work of Percoco “explores relationships between people and their environments as an inquiry to various expressions of identity, individuality, community, and the corporeal self.” She has a BA in dance.
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The LinkUP 6-month residency program welcomes artists working in movement-based practices.
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