I AM KAREN FINLEY (at chashama 112)

I AM KAREN FINLEY, a Paula Hunter solo dance performance is typically hilarious—like all of Hunter's work it traffic's in the absurd, the poignant, the bitter-sweet, and most definitely in the downright ludicrous. Residing in the depths of Hunter's bizarre look at the world, her choreography/performance is always true to her non linear, uncensored, and very revealing mode of thinking and expressing what she sees as the beautiful absurdity of life. I AM KAREN FINLEY is not the first time Hunter has taken her work to the confines of a window. Passersby will be entranced by Hunter's transforming performance during which she covers herself in common food products and in the process reveals the beauty of a cheeze whiz shampoo and a simple Hershey syrup sponge bath.

 

At the beginning of her career, Julinda Lewis, writing in DANCE MAGAZINE summed up Hunter's style and approach: "It would be hard to imagine Hunter, who performed three solos on this program, dancing with anyone else. Her choreography is full of quirky gestures, repeated again and again with different timing, in different directions, and in different order. The movements are culled from sports, street dancing, numerous other styles of dance and the deepest recesses of Hunter's imagination...[the dances] all make you feel as if you've crossed into a time zone where human motion follows laws you've never learned and may never understand."