Artist Fernando Maneca has designed an evening of two multi-media movement-based performance pieces that, while standing on their own as separate works, combine to provide a more complete program.

The first piece, Today I Am Feeling A Little Bit Less Cynical, performed by the ensemble, and accompanied by video footage, is a quick-paced dissection of the modern day rush hour, and the denizens thereof. In the second piece, a string of solos called JUST LIKE A MAN, Mr. Maneca posits the nature of manhood through a series of movement stories interspersed with videotaped interviews on the subject.

In this two act multi-media event, watch as Maneca contemplates the daily commute, does battle with a rake, and reveals the more intimate details of his life as a sexual being. Stereotypes are portrayed and explored. The tiniest details of day-to-day life are brought out into fluid motion as they become part of the dance. The mundane is the crucial matter here, and Maneca seems a budding master at transforming the commonplace into thought-provoking art.

For dance and then some, consider Fernando Maneca’s Today I Am Feeling A Little Bit Less Cynical and JUST LIKE A MAN.

- Kessa De Santis -