Cid Pearlman Performance
"The dancing...is big-boned, unself-conscious
and full of personality."
San Francisco Chronicle
"...intelligent, sensual choreography..."
San Francisco Bay Guardian
“…cool intensity…”
New York Times
“…brash wit and postpunk aesthetics…”
LA Weekly
“… the performance feels luxurious. Watching these distinctive dancers at such close quarters, at whatever angles we choose, with the liberty to come and go and share our thoughts with others as we please, is a rare pleasure.”
Carla Escoda, KQED
“Wit is a rare commodity in dance. Even more than its gentler cousin, humor, it demands a finely tuned eye and ability to observe with detachment without letting go of commitment. Cid Pearlman has what it takes.”
Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“I want to live in the little societies that Cid Pearlman creates: people hold their ground when they need to, still they have an essential gentleness toward one another.”
Janice Steinberg, San Diego Union Tribute
"...Pearlman’s choreography, palpably influenced by punk-rock aesthetics, is a stirring fusion of aggressive attack and strong technical lyricism. Her voice, mature but quirky, speaks volumes about what it means to be making dances in a world dominated by trends without falling prey to their commercial lures.”
Sima Belmar, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Writing, Media, etc.
A few years ago Cid wrote a paper about Economies of Effort 1-3 and The Year of Free.
Dance Scholar Sima Belmar wrote an essay on (home)Body and Cid's work for the Rydell Exhibition
Cid's TEDX talk on working with poetry in Your Body is Not a Shark, a collaboration with composer Joan Jeanrenaud and poet Denise Leto
Ann Simonton made a short documentary on Economies of Effort: 3 for her Media Watch series.
(home)Body
(home)Body is a collaboration between choreographer/director Cid Pearlman, video artist Mara Milam, poet/dramaturge Denise Leto, four commissioned poets, nineteen movement artists, composer Jonathan Segel, and an amazing video crew. It premiered at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, as part of the Rydell Fellows' exhibition, January–March 2022.
(home)Body had its European premiere September 18-25 at the Viimsi Artium in Estonia as part of the PÕHJA KONN festival.
(home)Body invokes complex relationships between embodiment and place. We explore questions such as What does it feel like to be at home in your body? What are embodied experiences of home across intersections of identities and expressions? With a multiplicity of voices, dancers and poetic imaginaries, the work speaks to ideas centering home and body through personal, experimental, and topical approaches. The films involve site-specific and immersive environments both natural and built. Spaces and bodies interact in a collaborative and choreographic conversation.
