For such a small country, the Netherlands has an unusual quantity of world-class dance troupes, including the Dutch National Ballet, based in Amsterdam, and the more experimental Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT) in The Hague.
Perhaps nothing is more controversial in experimental dance today than performance style.
Even the avant garde and more experimental end of dance music is not immune to the lure of high-end branding.
Vladislav Delay, née Sassu Rippati, has made euphoric dancefloor-focused vocal house music as Luomo, machinic tech-house as Uusitalo, and a whole bunch of noise in between, with chaotic live sets that have inspired a generation of performers in the more experimental wings of dance music.
Forever straddling the line between the dancefloor and the more experimental forms of underground dance music, he takes the acid house he came up on to headier, more abstract, more beautiful places.
These theaters have well-defined identities — Pleasance Courtyard, for example, specializes in comedy, while Aurora Nova features dance and more experimental work (like P.S. 122 in Manhattan) — and those allow the Fringe to maintain quality control without losing its democratic spirit.
With a main room residency at Fabric, Avery has a better opportunity than most to gauge what works and what doesn't, and while Drone Logic contains its fair share of bangers, it also works as an entire body of work, undulating through elements of dance music's more experimental moments.
2001's Confield abandoned the earmarks of electronic dance music almost entirely for something more experimental; 2013's Exai stretched out across two arduous but ultimately rewarding hours.
Do subtle variations in style in those songs, playing a bit of pop-dance style music, as well as more experimental jams to see what gets people popping.
Reflecting her longtime focus on Downtown and experimental dance in New York, Jowitt is also far more sympathetic than Vaill to those '60s experiments in life and art into which Robbins, happily and sometimes not so happily, plunged.
