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...theory, but it's the physical rush of the choreography that you take away from a McGregor performance - the mesh of high-speed detail, the interplay between the lyrical and the neurotic, the steely calligraphy of the limbs. Few choreographers make more extreme physical and mental demands on their dancers. "He likes brave people who have a willingness to try, and aren't precious," says Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson, who performed in Chroma. "Afterward you feel like your brain's been rewired." Jessica Wright, a dancer with Random, knows this sensation well: "Some of the work is mind-boggling...
...with green beaded necklaces and an abundance of Guinness beer at the Queen’s Head Pub on Saturday—but their partying among shamrocks and leprechauns has come a long way from the original meaning of the holiday. The festivities featured a river dancer and an Irish band, as well as an abundance of Irish flags and green paper streamers. Several inflatable plastic leprechauns were nestled among the beer steins behind the bar. The event’s river dancer, Whitney L. Kress ’08, gestured to the room’s decorations and said...
...three traditional poems, read in an Indian language and translated into English for the audience. The poem “This Monsoon Descends” investigated the co-existence of love and pain in the world. The pace soon picked up in an energetic Tamil dance in which dancers in bright orange dress with white washcloths reenacted a village scene about a shut-off water supply. The enthusiasm and energy of pieces like the Tamil dance characterized the show. This enthusiasm was most visible in the impressive and hugely enjoyable all-senior self-commemorative dance which led into intermission...
...form of isolation in the novel, which suffers when this point is stretched to its thematic conclusion. The characters seem trapped in this sort of stasis themselves. Their quick portraits are not deep enough to prevent easy categorization and stereotypes: the young punk railing against the world, the exotic dancer dreaming of bigger things, the sensitive homosexual artist, the paralyzed suburban housewife. Whether or not these typings are ultimately truthful seems like an intriguing question at the beginning of the book, but as it progresses, the extensive rumination on the characters’ roles fails to go anywhere or reveal...
Watching “Cultural Rhythms” was a bit like stepping back into Kindergarten: I, the short, klutzy spectator, was suddenly filled with the uplifting desire to drop my books and become a dancer. During Expressions Dance Company’s performance in the dimmed and lively Sanders Theater on Saturday, I found myself inadvertently tapping my pen to the beat. Nevermind the fact that I lack the graceful swanlike legs of a dancer, can’t count a beat, and have enormous, boat-like feet. “Cultural Rhythms” just does that...