Professor of dance at the University of California in Davis and founder and artistic director of the international touring company Thingsezisee'm Dance/Theater, David Grenke unleashes students' unlimited potential and stirs audiences to see themselves more clearly. (He also tends the home fires: Soon after he and his wife, Mindy, relocated from New York City to the West Coast in August, their first children, twins, were born.)
HIS WORK IS HIGHLY PRAISED. "As multifaceted as it is beautiful," exclaims Ursula Eagly on The Dance Insider website. Eagly, The Dance Insider, Flash Review 1, 1-6: "Grenke's New Art Form: 'Savage/Love' 's Blissful Mix," 2001, www.danceinsider.com/f2001/f106_1.html. In the eyes of dance critic Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times, "Mr. Grenke's way with movement is thrilling." Kisselgoff, "Physicality, Intensity and Tackles," The New York Times, September 12, 1995 .
I have not seen David Grenke dance live, only on a rehearsal tape of a pas de deux, but I understand. His choreography and dancing create kinetic space sculpture that is simultaneously complex and simple, restless and rigorous, intense, imaginative, gentle, fluid, and free. And beautiful. Like liquid form, mobilized by internal counterforces, he and his partner move as one. Ellipses of stillness and suspension punctuate a whirlwind of vigor, harmony, and precision.
