Invertigo Dance Theatre’s “Formulae & Fairy Tales” makes its world premiere at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
The 70-minute dance is a breakthrough for Karlin and Invertigo, founded in 2007. And though the choreographer is probably screaming in her gut, she had the wisdom to keep her seven performers from outwardly doing so. Karlin and the dancers she credits as her co-choreographers have judiciously chosen to present the injustices of Turing’s life without hysterical raging, and that decision makes the work all the more meaningful and poignant.
In two tableaux of happiness , Karlin introduces a heterosexual couple and then a same-sex couple, both of them disrupted by the gift of a very red apple. This is the only splash of color in a ballet that is almost entirely black, white and grays . A video grid of 44 circles is projected on the backdrop , and images of bombs exploding and scrolling numbers also are part of the visual storytelling.
Invertigo Dance Theatre in"Formulae & Fairy Tales," with projection designs by NightLight Labs and costumes by Rosalida Medina. Movement choices effectively signal even arcane concepts. The dancers assume angular shifting poses to suggest metallic computer machinery. Balletic lifts and flowing circular partnering present hope, kindness and support. The original score by Toby Karlin, the choreographer’s brother, along with Julia Kent and Eric Mason provided melodic interludes for the poetic swirling of dancers Hyosun Choi, Jessica Dunn, Spencer Jensen, Corina Kinnear, Dominique McDougal and Luke Dakota Zender.
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