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...most-finished works on the dance festival program took an entirely different tack from Borg's. "Five Aces" by Joyce Morgenroth, guest choreographer for a company from the Five Colleges, and "1-2-3-4-5-6" by Judy Chaffee Black, a BU faculty member, aimed only at being worldly, everyday, even mundane. Both choreographers dressed their dancers in athletic garb and set their work-outs against classical music...
Much more literal than Black's piece is Morgenroth's "Five Aces," with music by Liszt. Five dancers from The Moving Company began by spoofing sport and ballet antics. Morgenroth saves these familiar themes from becoming cliches by developing the parodied gestures into more suggestive and complex movement sequences, fusing the non-literal and literal into an expression beyond satire...
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...
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