The Charlotte York Irey Theatre presented an electrifying performance Sunday as BFA students demonstrated their artistic creativity intertwined by influences from their academic careers in the dance concert Catapult. Catapult featured four experimental performances, each one as unique as the other in respect to their individual choreographers: Taylor King, Kaitlyn Lawrence, Mattie McGarey and Olivia DeMoulin. As the eager audience took to their seats, a dense cloud of theatrical smoke slowly encompassed the room until the dark red lights beaming down from the ceiling seemed to thicken the air. The ambiance the lighting was emitting onto the audience had a significant impact as murmurs of the newly arrived crowd turned into silence; as the set slowly …show more content…
“...The feral woman is a woman making her way back. She is learning to wake up, pay attention, stop being naïve, uninformed. She takes her life in her own hands. To re-learn the deep feminine instincts, it is vital to see how they were decommissioned to begin with.” The awakening moment as the dancers are called to consciousness by other women, the reminder of the larger space that they are free to move in and inhabit. There is a freedom of movement, powerful and big, as their dance explores the essential energy of conscious awakening. It is a reflection of the transition from inertia to motion, reinforced by both the music that seemed to mimic heartbeats and the lighting with the dark red stage; this reminder of both bodily and emotional existence. Coming together in a final tableau of energy and togetherness, a stark contrast to the slumber of the opening scene, the isolation of each performer before they begin to dance is dispelled and replaced by determined motion. Unconsciousness to consciousness, fearfulness to fearlessness and the decision, the importance of choice, is now free to explode into