The dance season is still very young, but it is doubtful whether we will see anything quite as exhilarating from the home team as Garrett + Moulton Productions’ “The Luminous Edge,” the latest full-evening dance from the choreographing team of Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. The stage of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater came alive Thursday evening as the six principal dancers, an 18-member “movement choir” and a seven-person onstage chamber ensemble made that proscenium stage look like a giant beehive. [...] Garrett and Moulton do not divide up their duties publicly, but many years ago Moulton went down in dance history for creating a number called “Nine Person Precision Ball Passing,” which became something of a modern dance classic. Later, the choir seems transformed into a collection of furies, as each menaces a soloist, each bathed in a pool of David Robertson’s superb lighting. Everything about “The Luminous Edge” seems considered and executed at the highest level, starting with Mary Domenico’s costumes (red for the women, blue for the men). The sound score is mostly bits of original work by musical director Jonathan Russell and Marc Mellits.

 

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