Stepping into the recording-studio-cum-performance-venue Welcome to 1979 during the Kindling Arts Festival, audience members immediately became part of the abstract, comedic and mildly destabilizing world of Murder of Crows, Asia Pyron’s brilliantly entertaining dance performance piece featuring a superb cast of dancers/character actors. The narrative was ostensibly a murder-mystery, but the greatest conundrum lay in deciding which compelling performer to follow throughout the space (once the dancers split off into different parts of the “house”). Highlights included a coerced conga line and the most entertaining use of a folding chair. Pyron is elevating the percolating contemporary dance scene in Nashville and is undoubtedly a figure to watch.
