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Petite Rika Burnham, svelte and blonde, has stolen Harvard's arts for an evening. That is the nature of dance, ephemeral like theater, only living as it is performed. The Loeb has sponsored visiting troops, like the Paul Sanasardo Dance Co., the Utah Repertory Dance Theater, and Louis Falco who is to appear later this month. Rika's Dance and the four sketches showed us that the dance-child is growing here at Harvard; it only needs nourishment...
Graham has always stressed movement starting at the body's abdominal core; her dance creations have always started from the same center--from the guts and emotions. In "Pain" choreographer Sanasardo, and in "Palomas (Doves of Peace)" choreographer Manuel Alum give their dancers movements charged with emotion...
...Myth" opens on divine gesturing of three black bell-bottomed characters seated wide-stride on the floor. Sanasardo takes on his lead role as dancer (as well as choreographer) and strikes bold poses of god-like stature conveying a mood that shouts "fear me," and yet is humanly sensual...
...Pain", the finale of both performances of the company, is the most shocking and gnawing of any of the works presented. With bound feet and shackled hands, lead dancer Sanasardo writhes chained to a bar, often assuming Christ-like positions, while the company screams, beats heels on the floor and squirms in sympathetic reaction. The horror of Sanasardo, knocking his head on the floor as he crosses the stage causes gritted teetch and stifled cries in the audience. A blatant red kinetic construction by Robert Bayley cages the power of this acute pain. Few artists have illustrated such horror...
...Sanasardo and his untiring company perform with a verve and strength evidenced more today in gymnasts than dancers, but there is no question that this troupe and its choreographers have learned from Martha Graham and other greats of the dance tradition...