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...eliminating the inter-act narration, Tambar says the show's producers were able to introduce new elements to keep the audience entertained. While performers set up for upcoming acts behind the thick red curtain of the Agassiz stage or quietly prepared in the wings, cast members-and the occasional member of the tech crew-alternately performed humorous skits and read poetry...
According to Tambar, this is the first year in the show's history that tickets sold out prior to curtain each night...
Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...
...dances is a continuous, ebullient surge of movement that exists in perfect harmony with the music. Yo Yo Ma's passionate delivery of the music on stage with the dancers along with the visual splendor of the costumes and sets-a murmur swept through the audience when the curtain rose before the third dance, revealing a backdrop of red and green waves of color-arrested my attention more than the choreography of the dances themselves, which often became hypnotic in the monotony of their movement. The dancers, however, frequently surprised the audience with breathtaking leaps. In the first dance...
Matthew Diamond's Dancemaker might be the best dance documentary ever. Mind you, it's hard to make a boring backstage movie--every theatergoer secretly longs to know what wild shenanigans are going on behind the curtain--and it doesn't hurt that the star of Dancemaker, Paul Taylor, is one of the foremost choreographers of the 20th century. But Diamond's Oscar-nominated film is as much about the hardworking members of the Taylor company as about their enigmatic boss, and one of the most impressive things about Dancemaker is the way in which the details of the dancers...