Netherlands troupe finds new energy in old pieces
By Janine Parker
“…[The] movement is striking, and the seven hard-working dancers are beautiful performers, a pleasure to watch.”
” The brief, shocking cacophony of sound that formally begins “Sporen” feels like a chastisement, a comment on our society’s inability to focus. This is followed by a soft and fluid solo, the stage suffused in a candle-like glow, but after this sighing release, the work quickly builds to an impressively relentless physicality as the dancers jaggedly boomerang against the floor or slice and jab their limbs through space.
Although abstract on the surface – the casual beginnings and endings of phrases have the shrugginess of improvisation – a hint of humanity finally emerges, and it’s surprisingly tender, given the aloof, almost hostile way the movement hurtles out of the dancers’ bodies.
It happens near the end, after one woman is stunned into a frozen state, one arm outstretched, pointing, while her head is tilted crazily upward, eyes fixed in a horrible stare. Around her, facial expressions soften, and a hint of pleasure informs those rippling hips and torsos. Only connect? The lone woman, having recovered and left the stage, reenters – and in answer to the discordance of the work’s opening clang, the piece ends, wonderfully, hopefully, as she runs, leaps, and hurls herself on one of the others.”
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