Dance
Kylián’s astute choice of musical selections helped gave a structural shape to “Wings of Wax.”
Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.
BODYTRAFFIC seems to be invested in a relentless likeability.
Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.
Like a lot of first efforts by prospective masters, Artifact is loaded with ideas.
The performance turned out to be a nervy but hypnotic game of endurance for performer and audience members.
Nothing in this over-lengthy work refers to whales, the ocean, or even the fishing industry.
I like to see dances that are somehow all of a piece. Hope this doesn’t mean I’m sinking into some kind of retro-fogeyism.
In both pieces on the ODC/Dance program, serious ideas underlay a lush movement language adorned with striking scenic effects.
Dorrance’s partners dance jazz in the most basic way, for its propulsiveness and its amenability to individual imagination.

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