This is (definitely) not Meier's pink pony at the Abrons Arts Center

Arriving (fashionably?) late for a performance doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing: one can get much more than one bargained for. Such is the case when I walked into the lobby of New York Live Arts’ lovely venue in Chelsea last week, some five minutes behind schedule. Expletives are definitely running through my mind, as I observe that there are barely ten people mingling about.

Mark Dendy weaves Greek myth with autobiography in his dance-play, Labyrinth, at Abrons Art Center.

I find myself once again in the lovely Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center, which on this occasion hosts the world première of the new piece by Palissimo – the intrepidly inventive troupe helmed by the choreographer Pavel Zuštiak.

Jack Ferver is a well-loved figure on New York’s downtown performance circuit, so it is no wonder that I arrive to Abrons Arts Center’s largest space (the Playhouse) to find that every available seat in the house is full.

I promise I am not late – the house lights are up and the performance has not formally begun. And yet, the audience is dead silent as the auditorium slowly fills up for this evening’s performance of Super Nature, a collaboration between the Minneapolis-based dance troupe Bodycartography Project and the luminary composer/harpist Zeena Parkins, presented here as part of no less than two festivals: C

Dada Masilo wanted her audiences to feel the passion and to leave the theatre with a buzz. In her Hamlet, the commitment of the cast ensures this message still holds true.