#vicky shick

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Postmodern dancer Vicky Shick, above, brings Trisha Brown’s minimalist 1973 classic Spanish Dance to life.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company presented Roof Piece on the rooftops surrounding the High Line in 2011.

Photographs by Dylan Coulter for The New York Times

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certainly not

  ...And “Still Lives” needs editing and refinement.       But what would one delete? Certainly not the puttering that goes with the magically joined sleeves of two sets of robes, or the sitting down and inhabiting of several sets of perfectly chosen chairs.

— Jennifer Dunning, “When Cloth and the Set Make Images,” review of Vicky Shick her “Still Lives,” (The New York Times, November 18, 2000), encountered in The New York Times Dance Reviews 2000 (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001) : link

via via via’s (Justin Jones, Harry Hazel) too tiresome to detail.  

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The Choreographer Vicky Shick Explores Drama With the Body

Ms. Shick, one of the dance world’s local treasures, presents a full-length work that explores character as much as coordination.

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In “Everything You See,” Vicky Shick’s new dance at Danspace Project, the multiple solos, duets and trios may seem overwhelming but they’re never chaotic.

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Vicky Shick dancing Trisha Brown's Homemade. Photo by Stephanie Berger.

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Intimate Gatherings

"Seeing Vicky Shick dance is like happening upon a beautiful secret...."

 My response to Maura Nguygen Donohue, Juliette Mapp, and Vicky Shick at LaMaMa Moves! Dance Festival in The Brooklyn Rail.