Steve Smith, associate music editor at Time Out New York, has a blog—shockingly—and he just posted an interesting in-depth review of Saturday night’s eighth blackbird concert and their signature choreography:

eighth blackbird’s stage choreography may well turn out to be the group’s most revolutionary innovation: Both Frederic Rzewski’s peppy Les Moutons de Panurge and Fred Lerdahl’s sumptuous Fantasy Etudes benefitted from the players moving about on stage—drawing attention to the score’s direction of solo and ensemble play, and thus enhancing comprehension rather than inhibiting it. While I won’t suggest that every chamber group should be dancing its programs, it definitely works for this one.

He then goes on to review the Germs‘ reunion show.