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Somewhere in the middle of the dance the music stops. Upstage, three amorphous forms continue to ooze in silent motion. Downstage, one small body remains stranded, frozen in a single pool of light. In the center, a flood of darkness. Between the idea and the reality...The isolated dancer begins to beat her foot slowly against the ground. Between the conception and the creation...The beating comes louder then faster and faster. Between the desire and the spasm... Until suddenly, lifted by her own momentum, she rises...
...curtain goes up, choreographer Liz Lurie, wrapped like a mummy, is being slowly un-wound from offstage. A TV flips on somewhere as Lurie trots around the stage removing more clothing and brushing away invisible flies. Finally, not knowing how else to amuse herself, she play-acts--a belly dancer, an Indian woman, a femme fatale throwing pink hand-kerchiefs to the wind...
...Sunday morning...undone" works at least partly because Lurie surrounds herself with the artifacts of restless desperation. But "Winter Places," the most effective piece in the program, says it all without using a prop. Although it is not clear whether the dancers braced against the cold are peasants laboring in a field or just people plodding through the snow, the sense of oppression here is very real. The work is made of fragments until the isolated images of the dancers become rapidly more systematic and simultaneous. The climax brings a kind of ghoulish march with the eyes of each dancer...
Some Glass Jars and Shifting: A solo performance with voice, glass jars and movement by a talented young dancer who emerges from Cunningham's non-literal dance experiments of the fifties. David Appel claims he's been a musician since the fourth grade, but says his real interest is the fine line between unconscious changes in movement and those made consciously. If nothing else, his two pieces should be a victory for sheer concentration as Appel winds his dances tighter and tighter and each movement appears as a completion of the one that came before. April...
Brandeis and Boston Conservatory were represented by student works, and Rhode Island College by a lengthier piece, "Celebrations," choreographed by former Limon dancer Clay Taliffero. A work by two students from the University of New Hampshire, "Energy Games," took up one theme with which Black and Morgenroth, too, were concerned--using energy as speedily as possible. Rather than structure their piece into a series of discrete events, as did the two established choreographers, Jeanette Rive and Christian Swenson blurred the lines of their choreography. One could never say what was happening at any exact moment. Costumed in gray leotards...