Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’
The New York Times
Caleb Teicher’s “Sw!ng Out” at the Joyce Theater aims to bring swing onstage as it lives today in a program that’s part variety show, part hangout.
Choices picked out of a hat: It’s a gambit of magicians and improv comedians, a way of showing an audience that chance is at work and performers are creating on the fly.
That’s the effect it has in “Sw!ng Out,” a new swing-dance show opening a two-week run at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. At one point, cast members play a game called Luck of the Draw. A pair of performers’ names are picked out of a hat, then they dance the next tune together.
It sounds simple enough, but the game encapsulates several ways that “Sw!ng Out” is distinct, even groundbreaking.
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