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Cunningham acknowledges how Hook has broadened her dancing. “I love that [Hook’s style] is very technical and dance-y, and that’s my passion,” she says. “We come from different places in approaching the movement. She’s shaped my dancing a bit. I tend to be more rigid as a mover, and Sara has brought in a little more depth.” Erika Randall agrees: “Even when you work alone, she’s in your head...
Cochran performed in five of the night’s seven works, opening the show with “Patriot Act UP,” a dance that demands both a credible acting performance and impressive technical precision. Hook explains that “Patriot Act UP,” set to traditional American songs by Morton Gould and John Philip Sousa, was intended to be a political commentary questioning the package of patriotism. Cochran communicated the playful satire by producing props from her costume such as a lollipop, a toy flag, and a noisemaker as the tune suddenly changed...
...It’s titled ‘Salad Days’ because I noticed I have an interest in conjuring memory in my pieces,” Hook says. “Our culture seems to want to pinpoint an era of time. I feel like there’s a tragedy in that concept. Both humor and tragedy in that concept...
Although each work can be interpreted several ways, Hook emphasizes that her choreography is not meant to be message-oriented. “There are so many layers and ways [the audience] can relate,” she says...
...It’s a blend of obsession with physical virtuosity,” Hook says of her new work. “Something very frank and at the same time very surreal. It’s partly a reaction to the times, but also a development of my confidence. It’s less a caricature and much more the situation evoked from embracing movement and technique. In some ways, it’s not what’s the trend. Technique and the exploration doesn’t have to have an illustrative result, but it can have...