McGregor's ENTITY

San Francisco Performances brought Wayne McGregor's Random Dance company to the Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center last night. McGregor's Chroma was a favorite from the latest San Francisco Ballet season, and that was why I wanted to see is own London company on tour.  

Critics have called McGregor's work "cold." One writer described ENTITY as "aerobics from hell."

True, there were no rest breaks last night and few cues. Ideas tumbled on top of one another. Five women and five men performed with absolute intensity and with absolute focus and with absolutely no intermission.

I noticed from the program notes that nobody had been in the company longer than three years.

Paolo Mangiola
Italy

Catarina Carvalho
Portugal

Davide Di Pretoro
Italy

Michael-John Harper
Jamaica

Daniela Neugebauer
Switzerland

Anna Nowak
Poland

Jessica Wright
UK

Alexander Whitley
UK

Benjamin Ord
New Zealand

Fukiko Takase

Japan