The Chase Brock Experience review

The Chase Brock Experience is a refreshingly unpretentious one. In a world where everyone is concerned with meeting their quota of ‘deep art’ in their dance, Brock just creates dance that he likes. You can tell by the profound lack of unexplained screaming.

Compared with artists like Jeremy Wade or Dario Vaccaro, Brock is lighter fare. Not only are the dances more upbeat and airborne, they are a little light on substance. With the exception of Tossing and Yearning, most of the dances seemed like musical style choreography; either comical characterizations or continual leaping. What’s sad is that that sounds like a slight. There is nothing wrong with musical style choreography or light-hearted dance; we just don’t see much of that around here.

Tossing and Yearning is an exception to this over-generalization. The collection of short vignettes gives us glimpses of aspects of love relationships that are resoundingly honest. Neither poetic love nor emo dramatizations, the dances make you remember the actual experiences.

Brock is performing a night of all new dances at Joyce Soho in May. You can bet we’ll be there. Whimsical or not, Brock has talent and I think we’ll see it mature.