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First in the program, Eliot Feld's "Contra Pose" (1990) is nothing short of profound. It astounds by constantly merging and deconstructing different aspects of dance, creating a barrage of visual images that collide and regroup like highly-charged atomic particles...
Unlike many traditional ballets, Feld's piece shows not only the reality of what the dancers are supposed to represent, but also their existence as bodies on stage, as a reality in and of themselves...
...Feld's choreography calls for the dancers to appear informally on stage to warm-up as the audience is being seated. This merging of representation and reality becomes a unifying force once the lights dim and the music starts...
...classically trained company's execution of Feld's challenge to traditional ballet is commendable, with minor exceptions. The dancers falter during Feld's complicated, highly rhythmic patterns, when they lose their sense of the sequences' purpose and break their connection to each other in the chaos...
...responsible to think that the legal system is the way to help young people," Feld said...