Hazards of Bodily Intrigue – The Stephen Brown Dance Company Performs The Beast of SB Dance

 While most of Utah was honking about Sundance and parking, the real event in Salt Lake this weekend debuted not on any screen but instead on the stage of the Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre of the Rose Wagner Center for The Performing Arts.  For three days (January 27 - 29), The Stephen Brown Dance Company presented The Beast of SB Dance.  

While companies such as The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and Repertory Dance Theater may have received more attention than other local dance companies, this most recent show by The Stephen Brown Dance Company announces the group to be entirely on a par with all competing companies—that is, if Stephen Brown seeks to compete at all.  From the opening of the first number, set to a seriously groovy mashup of Led Zeppelin samples, SB steps forth to occupy and dominate its own choreographic niche.  “Table” (the first section of a larger suite, Steel and Flesh), like so much of the show, employed an incredible economy of means with regard to the use of props.  In this case, a simple aluminum hospital gurney allowed dancers to explore not only their considerable expressive and athletic capacities, but also the audience’s capacity to take pleasure in morbid good humor.  

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