Vox Dance Theatre

Kathleen is a friend I met through work. She is a rep for a furniture company. Last summer, I was telling her about dance camp and found out she used to be a dancer! Apparently, my chats with her about how much I love dance inspired her to start doing it again, and I got the chance to see her perform today. The company she dances with performed at Brand Library in Glendale. I wasn't sure how dance would work in a library but they have a small art gallery the performance took place surrounded by the latest art exhibit. The piece that impacted me the most was called 'Fimmine'. It is performed to music by Philip Glass and the dancers (all women) are costumed in wedding dresses. Glass' music always makes me feel a certain sense of dread, unease, anxiety. I find it hard to listen to, however I love to watch dance done to his music, the right choreography somehow provides a place of safety for some difficult emotions. Throughout the piece I kept feeling like something terrible had happened that I wasn't aware of, or was about to happen. In the last part of the piece, the women all take off their dresses and are wearing only their underclothes (bras, petticoats, etc) and each has a red sash around their waste, which we caught glimpses of earlier. This part of the movement worked so wonderfully with the music to bring the whole piece to a dramatic conclusion. I'm so happy I played a small part in getting Kathleen back to dance. She was so expressive and daring, it's an inspiration!