Humphrey's choreography began with experiments in dance theory and as an attempt to reduce dance to pure movement.
Outré experiments in dance generally survive only in the history books.
By Joan Acocella Outré experiments in dance generally survive only in the history books.
Presented by the Danspace Project, this avant-garde arts group experiments with dance and gallery installations in "Feast," which explores the origin of desire or Plato's eros, in the company's cathedral-like theater.
And there are other works worth traveling to see: notably "Suite for Five" (at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, Nov. 11 and 12), one of Cunningham's first radical experiments with dance in space and time.
Just as Niobe, Andorra's closing track, was an itchy, gurgling, shapeshifter of a song, which bore little relation to the beatific psychedelia that characterised the rest of that album, so Swim is an itchy, gurgling, shapeshifter of an album, built from experiments in dance music, melodies that oscillate restlessly across the speakers, dispassionate vocals and squalls of free jazz.
Ben Patashnik of NME stated that the album is largely monotonous and includes too many pedestrian experiments in dance music.
The Strokes' "Comedown Machine" filters '80s light-pop references through hand-played weariness; the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Mosquito" builds dense, atmospheric sonic experiments into dance-punk.
At one point, she said of her most recent album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," somewhat defensively: "Yes I experimented with dance tracks.
But experiment in dance does not always entail a new movement vocabulary, and there is no contradiction in Mr. Forsythe's use of a 350-year-old dance lexicon.
