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Last Minute Wood Company, Rappahannock’s modern dance troupe, drew mixed reviews from Washington Post critic Alan Kriegsman for last weekend’s performance at Glen Echo Park in Washington.
But Kriegsman was instinting in his praise for Sally Nash, founder, choreographer and dancer with Last Minute Wood.
“Within the scale of contemporary Washington dance, Sally Nash sounds a note distinctly her own— this in itself singles her out of the crowd and invests her work with more than ordinary interest,” wrote Kriegsman in a review that appeared in Monday’s Post.
“For Nash, dance is a way of saying things about the everyday experience of living—things that could not be expressed as potently by any other means. The themes she explores with the members of her Last Minute Wood Company.. .revolve around generational bonds and conflicts, rites of passage, the grinding chores of backwoods existence. Most of of her work develops from group improvisation and it has a chracteristically homespun, elemental, rough-hewn look.”
Kriegsman found all these qualities much in evidence in Nash’s Glen Echo program, which included “scenes from Childhood” (1982) and the brand-new “Seen Through Moving Water.” But he found missing from both works “the strinkingly surreal imagery, the
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