Dance and imitation - a current example

Reading about the upcoming Grant St. Dance Company holiday show (this very weekend!) in the Lancaster newspaper, a quote from "Dancing through the humor, hassles and humanity of the holidays" by staff writer Kathleen Daminger caught my eye.

Daminger quotes Grant St. artistic director Kim Jureckson about one dance in the show:

"I wanted to give a nod to Black Friday," she says. "The whole idea of people lining up at crazy hours, the doors opening, people shoving. It's frightening to see that."

In that piece, video footage shows people shoving and stepping over each other, while dancers come on stage doing the same thing.

"It's art imitating life," she says.

Read more: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/311302#ixzz15Aap8Vtn