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Incredibly Memorable Transverse Orientation WOW’S at BAM
What an unforgettable night at BAM was had by all this past Saturday. The audience gave a long-standing ovation for the extraordinary piece of work genius Dimitris Papaioannou created with an impeccable cast of dancers for Transverse Orientation. A tour de force of spellbinding visual physical montages. It was a Salvador Dali painting that came to life. A brilliant surreal puzzle, it seemed, since everything on the stage became a throng of other things turning inside out and upside down, not easily fitting together, but not meant to be. It is appropriate that the director is also a painter, as it seemed each vignette was just that, a moving art installation instilled with the complicated spirit of man. With every moment, the unexpected succeeded in the next starling transformation. This very unique piece of work was all things in one. it lent itself to more than dance, fluidly transitioning between theater, mime, comedy, acrobatics, and even singular magic. Poignant at moments, otherworldly sometimes. From a single white door implanted in a white wall, creatures emerge whose black balloon heads atop black-suited bodies enter in a kooky flickering hibbity jibbity of excitement. No other way to explain it as they comically dart around the stage, bouncing off walls and trying to achieve their impossible objectives with a single iridescent light.
