Angelic Lunacy and Tortured Dreams
Movement Research at Judson Church
The New York Times, March 9, 1992

Extroverted tomfoolery was the order of the night when Movement Research presented Scott Heron on Monday. “Lecture: The Dance of Positions, Two People” was at its best a showcase for Mr. Heron’s angelic lunacy. Looking often like a stick-figure as he moved through those positions, long thin limbs prodding crookedly, Mr. Heron first appeared as a solemn high priest of sorts, moving gingerly onto the stage in a towering headdress of plastic-bagged balloons. By the end he was distinctly human, crossing and re-crossing the floor in an odd, knotty little duet with Kathy Danger.

In between, in the best part of the piece, the gangling Mr. Heron lollopped and leaped inside a square formed by a string of large colored lights and grimaced with the fierce abandonment of the innately shy. When he ill-advisedly left the square, he was greeted with a roaring cacophony of drums and yells from the balcony, from an orchestra that included some young stars of the post-post-modernist performance circuit. An offstage voice talked the audience throughout the dance as it happened and afterward. A buzzing little car, driven by remote control, also figured in the piece, as did hats with huge bobbing cardboard daisies. The props and hats were designed by Mr. Heron and Matthew Buckingham.

—JENNIFER DUNNING