Stephen Brown Dance Company

Other Shows:

Mortal Coil

Dry Spell

Moon Tornado
Salon 2006

Specimen

Cirque de Me

Waltz of the Dog-
Faced Boy

Scampdance

Dry Spell (Spring 2006)

Using a flood of fast-paced, athletic dancing, driving music, surprising images and hilarious skits, Dry Spell wonders why our lives are jammed with crap and when will a good rain change this crap.

"The first 20 minutes of "Dry Spell" are alone more than worth the price of admission, with tantalizing, energizing choreography and great music, followed by a hilarious revival-style monologue by dancer (and actor, apparently) Josh Larson. Larson brings the same barely controlled bull-in-a-china-shop power to his spoken role as he does to his dancing, making him the perfect choice for this part.

Stephen Brown's choreography is highly entertaining, if sometimes just plain weird. His strength is in his ability to acknowledge both the frailties and fortes of men and women (and their sexuality as well - the company throws in a comic riff about nudity, a subject that has become its tongue-in-cheek staple).

With the scaled-down props, it might be a little more traditional as far as choreography style goes than in previous SB Dance concerts, but it's still anything but ordinary - except in Brown's world, of course, where humor, satire, language and movement come together in a cheeky homage to nothing but the talent of his own cast."

-- Christy Karras, Salt Lake Tribune