Scrambled Legs

“Scrambled Legs” investigates Cornfield’s interest in mapping our emotional systems, a GPS of choreography. Inhabited by rich full-bodied movement and saucy character, this work is replete with physical and emotional traveling. Cornfield builds phrases with a detailed and rhythmic movement vocabulary composed of formal material and a gestural vernacular, evocative of emotional states and functional activities, all with a lighthearted touch. She develops a tapestry of characters, drawing heavily on the individual movement qualities, personalities and strengths of the dancers. Our expectations of their interactions and the logical order of their behavior throughout the piece are scrambled, as the dancers engage and disengage, stumble in and around one another, dipping and soaring. 

Composer Jerome Begin’s improvisational score of rich electronic tonalities, Kimberly Manning’s lively costumes covered by colorful meandering lines evocative of mappings, and the playful choreography combine to create a potent artistic whole.