Morphic Fields

the first of three pieces performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre by Fluxusdance, with the dance company of New York-based Michael…

the first of three pieces performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre by Fluxusdance, with the dance company of New York-based Michael Foley, was the latter's Some Time With the Furies. Six minutes of comedy, this contrasted the music of Gluck's Orpheo with the movement, a mixture of exaggerated camp, deliberate clumsiness, fisticuffs and kick-boxing, in which Lucy Dundon and Foley got many laughs.

It was followed by Cathy O'Kennedy's Morphic Fields. This time, the couple (Dundon and Maurice Fraga) barely interacted for the first half, as they walked and ran, miming everyday tasks, even standing still while Electrosect's percussive score seemed to urge them on.

After the interval came the piece on which the two choreographers had collaborated. This was Giselle, the Presence of the Past, in which Keesha Beckford and Jennifer Fleenor joined Dundon, Foley and Fraga.