Raging Ambition, and Then Some ‘Actress Fury,’ a Dance-Theater Work Set in a Dressing Room
Laura Collins-HughesFebruary 10, 2014: The cacophony rises as the voices of the three women overlap: the first singing, the second talking into a microphone, the third speaking directly to the spectators while she moves among them. Eventually, the singer has had enough. “I can’t even hear myself!” she erupts. “You guys are just loud. And annoying.” It’s a scripted rant, but not all of the dissonance in Actress Fury, at the Bushwick Starr, is deliberate. This dance-theater piece, by Jennie MaryTai Liu and her company, Grand Lady Dance House, is nominally about actresses and ambition.
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