Jane Franklin Dance Performance

Jane Franklin Dance: Brings to the Community a Dance Performance by Forty +

Wednesday, March 16, 20011, 1 p.m.

Jane Franklin doesn’t sweat the technique: Her choreography is always lovely and expansive, but it’s never flashy enough to be distracting. Maybe that’s a function of Franklin’s wry and perverse sense of humor bubbling beneath the surface of each of her pieces. Or maybe it’s because she never seems content to let her audiences simply savor the beauty of the dancers in motion: Bodies become cogs in the machinery (as in Temporal Interference) or alternate instruments (as in this year’s impressive Sound Walk) or, really, anything but bodies. Sometimes Franklin seems more like a composer than a choreographer, frequently breaking her pieces into separate “movements,” each with its own funky rhythm. Of course, modern dance has very few rules, and Franklin breaks all of ’em. —NG, Washington City Paper, Best of DC 2008

Community Welcome.

Dance Performance is FREE- Call to Reserve a Seat by Monday, March 14   703-765-4573, TTY 711   

This free performance is sponsored by Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood andCommunity Services, Mount Vernon At Home, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program.