Impulses Dance Theatre Arts Presents

MARGARET BEALS FILMS AND STORIES

The Cloud House Studio
104 West 17th St., 2nd Floor
NY NY 10025
21 May 2016


Margaret Beals is an extraordinary dancer. One of the few who has ever made a career of improvisational dance, she not only improvises her dances to music, but to poems as well. Sometimes with a poem, she recites as she dances, and sometimes plays a recording of herself reciting. It sounds strange until you see it. Then you wonder why it isn’t done more!

For these two evenings, Margaret Beals shared films of herself dancing, and told stories about how those filmed pieces came to be. The films are a remarkable record of a remarkable career, and while she is still a lovely and eloquent woman, her impulse to improvise doesn’t always make for great storytelling in her own words. But that doesn’t really matter, since she tells such amazing stories, not just with her body, but with the sounds her body makes on the floor. I have never before seen a person become waves of the sea, but she did it! It was a truly inspiring evening that should be seen by all dancers, musicians, and other creative individuals.

- Jean Tait -