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...style." She, along with guitarist Carlos Tañada, 25, bassist Paul Yap, 25, and drummer Ean Mayor, 23, cite eclectic musical reference points, from the fey electronica of Zero 7 to the studied cool of David Sylvian. It makes for music that manages to be both thoughtful and sensual. "A band like this doesn't come around more than once in every 10 years," says Rock Drilon, founder of Manila's influential live venue Mag:net Café. Adds Andrew de Castro, program director of MTV Philippines, "When everyone else was doing rock, [the band] came out with fresh...
...most enjoyable pieces of the evening, “Duet,” Joffe and Verma expertly executed the sensual choreography of Nell S. Hawley ’10. The duo worked beautifully together, often moving exactly in sync, as if they both belonged to the same body. The choreography, set to the powerful vocal music of 17th-century German composer Heinrich Schutz, made excellent use of the space in between the dancers’ bodies. The ending sequence left a lasting impression as the two girls embraced, before pulling away from each other...
...Take Jacob, for instance. He was not always the grim and asexual idealist he appears to be. At one time he was a doper and a drunk idling his life away in third-world squalor. It is why Helene (Jorgen's sensual yet sensible wife, limpidly played by Sidse Babett Knudsen) long ago left him. And why she is startled to encounter him as a new self, stern and rectitudinous. It's the same way with Jorgen. Underneath his affability there is a willful and angry self-made man - and a brutality that is openly manifested in a drunken restaurant...
...original, but also a great synthesizer. He drew inspiration from the engineering-as-architecture of London's 19th-century Crystal Palace, a place as stripped down and functional as a suspension bridge, but also from the Expressionism of Erich Mendelsohn, the German architect who brought a sensual component to Modernism. What Rogers arrived at was a way to make high tech not just lucid but surprising. Modernism expelled applied ornament. But by making an explosive aesthetic use of the raw, unadorned elements of a building, Rogers showed that, all by itself, the elemental could be ornamental...
Particularly impressive were Karine Seneca and Carlos Molina in a strikingly sensual pas de deux before the final ensemble. Each intricately constructed lift left the audience gasping, literally, not only at the visual beauty and flawless execution but also because of the pair’s penetrating intensity...