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...Conceptualization is snaking its way into the paradise of the body's motion, too. The Tanz-Forum Koln, a modern dance company from Cologne, Germany, exemplified the insidious trend at the Loeb this weekend. They didn't dance so much as they intellectualized movement. What hung in the air weren't bodies, or gestures, but unformulated notions of a conceptual framework. One left questioning (what was it all about?), mentally provoked, but sensually frustrated...
...Tanz Forum Koln relies heavily on acting for expression; their dancing is not exceptional. The effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
...technique and fell flat. The man who was to catch the roller skater stepped out from the wings about 100 feet of stage too early, etc. Slapstick succeeds only if there is a firmly controlled base, an unshakeable structure in time, space, and the coordination of the two; the Tanz Forum, lacking this, could only slap...
...company holds Morrice's work together better than they do the other two pieces; remarkable, because it is the most difficult of their repertoire, and the only piece not choreographed for them. Part of the viability of "Show" is due to the four really fine dancers of Tanz-Forum, given leads in this work: Heide Tegeder (by far the best of the company), James Saunders, Svenbjorg Alexanders, and Ralf Harster. (Michael Molnar, an impressive statue, is too tight when asked to move.) The company's affinity for this ballet, however, goes beyond good dancing by the leads. Morrice's analysis...
Perhaps this indicates no trend, perhaps the work of one "modern dance" troupe connects not at all with the current inward spiral of the arts. Hopefully, it's only Tanz-Forum that needs to be reminded that in dance, it's the present, not the thought, that counts...