Chriselle Tidrick at Streb Lab

Chriselle Tidrick: "Absentia"  
Graceful movements, 
timed to perfection,
full of so much feeling. 
Tidricks performance
radiated life and power 
so much so, she held the crowd in her trance. 
It surged with the promise of deeper things,
a story you saw and felt on an abstract plane of the mind.
Something emanating from her through you, and back again.
Warm, personal, thoughtful, and yes, somewhat sensual,
but it's warm and clean. Her movements are meant
to express longing, the loss of a lover, 
the crux of "Absentia", a visual expression 
of her dealing with this. The movements on 
and off the silk cloth melded together 
with a strange operatic beauty. 
Balancing with the ease of a bird taking flight, 
she moved with the silk cloth and her passion 
as if these three were one.
Her costume went perfectly with the cloth behind her 
and the floor mat, the shadows, and darkness surrounding her, 
She is spellbinding.
"Absentia, is an excerpt  from a much longer piece
about loss and longing. The experience of a female character
who wakes up to discover that her beloved is no longer
at her side". Mrs Tidricks' title (almost inadvertently)
references a wonderful piece of choreography by Janis Brenner,
titled 'Dancing in Absentia'. Streb lab for action mechanics, 
started by Elizabeth Streb, where the event took place
Williamsburg Bklyn,  showcases performances
in trapeze, aerial, and dance.
It's like going to the Circus and an abstract dance spectacle
at the same time. As Miss Streb puts it, "At this point in my career,
my vision for S.L.A.M is an open-access venue that models
a new kind of Artist-driven community institution.
The doors of S.L.A.M are never closed". 
Chriselle Tidrick is the Artistic director
of "Above and Beyond Dance", a performance company which
creates circus-infused dance, and greatly involved with Streb lab. 
She studied at George Washington University, 
and has performed at the Alice Farley Dance theater,
Catherine Gallant/dance, Jody Sperling/Time lapse
and the Metropolitan Opera. If you would like to know more please go to:www.aboveandbeyonddance.com


Studio-Phoenix & K.K.W would like to thank Streb Lab (www.streb.org), Chriselle Tidrick, 
and Bobby Hedglin-Taylor for the chance to cover the show.
Article & photo's by K.K.W