Wet Road is a 45-minute work for four dancers (two women and two men) and a female skeptic/observer. Envisioning the body as obstacle and pathway - a site of hazardous entrapment and source of irresistible pleasure - the movement language revolves around leg trapping, fragile balances and a shared central axis. Wet Road imagines mating as an intensely danced dream-like blend of lust, trust, tenderness and threat.
…with Adrian Clark, Leslie Kraus, Jason Dietz Marchant, and Lindsey Dietz Marchant laying down exacting, exquisite performances that hold back neither body nor soul. Sometimes, hooking their legs and torsos around their partners’ ankles and calves, the women became like swamps through which the men attempted to move. You could almost hear murky water slosh—or quicksand drag at its captives’ limbs. Weare spun those moves into far reaches of the imagination where fiery women contended as equals with their men… where dancers took to the wet road with no concern for danger.
~ Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Gay City News
A double bill I saw at Dance Theater Workshop can stand for an entire generation of choreographers. In "Wet Road," Kate Weare wanted to explore sexual desire from a female perspective. She did so, but not with bold nudity…the clinical detachment of Ms. Weare's approach was erotic in its very indirection.
~ John Rockwell, NY Times: Sunday Arts & Leisure
Weare creates wonderfully ingenious, often cruel variations on the steps - ferocious moves appear in many guises.
~ Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
Runtime: 40 minutes
Choreography: Kate Weare
Music: Katie Down
Costume Design: Astrud Angarita
special thanks
Wet Road was commissioned by the Bessie Schonberg/First Light Commissioning Program of Dance Theater Workshop with funds from The Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN.
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