  Choreographed psychodramas   New dances by masters Joe Goode
and Bill T. Jones  Joe Goode Performance Group performs Dead
Boys in Berkeley. Print this Page Send to a Friend Share on
Facebook Share on Twitter Share on MySpace!  It's just a
coincidence that Bill T. Jones and Joe Goode, two major gay
choreographers who deal with gay themes, have opened shows back
to back (and at the same time as the national LGBTQ protest for
Equal Rights in Washington, DC). Just a coincidence, but it
feels portentous, like something's about to give. I have to say,
I don't know which way things are going to break.  Not all
dances are "about" something. There's a kind of pure-dance
theater that is "just about the movement." But there is, at the
other end of the spectrum, a kind of dance theater that's about
life in the body: movement, physicality, relationship,
sexuality, love, hate, anger. It's made of stylized, heightened
action, is sometimes closer to acting than to "dancing," and can
be gritty, naturalistic, even journalist