What I liked
Touching in with her childhood relationship with her parents and bringing this forward into her adult relationships through the power of story and movement. Her dancer’s agility stirred the room.
What I didn't like
I’m not sure it “worked” to step out of character, as if talking to a friend in a living room. The hypnotic effect was momentarily broken, though the turns always brought me right back in step with her.
My overall impression
Dagmar Stanaova’s “Loose Underwear” left tear-streaked marks of her genius as I settled into its emotional impact of raw honesty, smart humor and the personal reckoning with her past, that is all of ours, through the lens of her mother’s experience as a Holocaust survivor. In short, I was awakened and moved. Told with grace, wit and the kind of connection that can only come from the truth of who she is sparked a universal truth of knowing: We all come from a lineage of ghosts, cellular memories, and the creative power to change the course of our personal and collective histories.
