Faye Driscoll's There Is So Much Mad in Me at DTW
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/performance/there-was-so-much-feeling-in-this/824/
Faye Driscoll is the latest artist to figure out how to use DTW’s big theater to best advantage. Her incredible dancers contributed greatly to the success of There is so much mad in me,which ran through last weekend. Driscoll says it concerns “a craving to feel, to connect through the vehicle of extreme experience.” And experience we did as the performers moved among us, celebrating, bullying, taking bows. By the end, we felt implicated in the performance, rather than simply observers.
Nikki Zialcita, a compact dynamo, tiptoed forward, supported by Michael Helland. She seemed positively exhilarated at every weight shift, shrieking as if each tiny step were a thrilling plunge off a cliff. The other eight dancers surrounded her, and we weren’t sure if they were intimidating her or supporting her. These blurred lines between terror and pleasure, love and abuse (tickling is a fine example), pervade the evening’s proceedings.
