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...uses nothing but metaphoric gesture: expressive intent informs each movement. The work is simply structured One group of dancers works as a unit into which three characters--"the shaman," "the first horse," and "the mother"--emerge and recede. The section motifs, derived from imporivsation directed by guest choreographer Aileen Passloff, are simple as well: huddling in a mass, journeying in a chain of linked arms, imitating birds and horses and animal-demons. Yet the logic of how one section plays off against the next is puzzling. What sort of beings are these--ancient creatures, spirits, dream images? It's easy...
...their legs and feet dangling prettily in the air, as if no position in the world could be more natural. Then, just before you, too, roll over on your back, properly convoluted, you see the young woman who is leading the parade (later you learn her name is Aileen Passloff, and she has come all the way from New York to free your head and activate your hamstrings), and she is wearing some leg-warmers that look like bell-bottoms and a leotard with a zip-up front, all very chic, and most important, and continually more important...
ENCOUNTERS is a musical that explores the emotions and fantasies of Romeo and Juliet through song and dance. It was conceived by Paul Zakrzewski, who also put the lyrics to Wally Harper's rock-to-romantic score. Aileen Passloff choreographs and directs. Berkshire Theater Festival...
...company headed by Aileen Passloff, one of the more highly praised avant-garde dancers, performed works that at times seemed closer to calisthenics than choreography. In At Home, the dancers brought out an ironing board and chairs, spent much of their time exuberantly thumping the floor with their heels to the taped ringing of bells, rubbing of balloons, and the off-key screech of misplayed violins. In Arena, the dancers did push-ups while an accompanist whistled Yankee Doodle. Appropriately, the series ended with a piece called Cypher, done, to the sound (electronically altered) of an audience coughing during...
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