Brava Brockus! 7 Years of Eclectic and Outstanding Dance on The FRINGE

By Joanne DiVito, LA Dance Chronicle | March 1, 2019

Nannette Brodie’s “Every Soldier Has a Story” was one of the most important and beautifully conceived statements of the evening.  We saw excerpts from a longer piece, but the impact was clear.  Beginning with a Soldier Recruitment Office, and moving through to the reality of war, it affected the audience enough to audibly hear gasps.  It was a subtle and brilliant overview of a piece that needs to be seen in full. The dancers Priya Chisti, Evyn Davis, AJ Dirickson, Julisa Figueroa, Dennzyl Green, Jennie Sustaita, and Erica Villalpando were so focused, and so clearly technically committed to the piece that one could only come along for the journey, as powerful and heartbreaking as it was. Nannette Brodie is the founder and artistic director of Nannette Brodie Dance Theater.