” Last night I was witness to 70 minutes of blisteringly good dancing. Sporen (Traces) choreographed by Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana had the audience on the edge of our seats.
I stifled sighs and squeals of delight over the course of the evening. No narrative was there to be found except the narrative of life, of the body. Messy yet exactingly formal, overlapping sometimes solitary sometimes in duos or trios, the dancers built a city of movement.”
“…the work got underway opening with a beautiful duet with dancer and singer. The two shared an intimacy without touching; it was an intimacy of the voice and the dancer’s movements which glide and slip, support and stretch the sorrowful 16th century song. Then the scene was blasted with a mini entre’ act; the stage went black and a blast of sound accompanied a dancer making a pass across the lit downstage edge. Similar entre’ acts repeated throughout the piece … Used similarly to divide the work…”
” In between these “columns”, we saw an amazing array of dancing – quiet, slow, fast, wrenching, swirling – every effort, initiated from every point in the dancer’s body, followed through then abruptly interrupted. After a while I began to feel that this was not unlike a journey through a city – perhaps it was a city unto itself – a city of movement.”
” How wonderful it is to be engaged as a viewer, to just enjoy the amazing talent of the dancers and the rich choreographic feast that was laid before us. This was the kind of feast that could take days to consume, but it was compacted into a little over an hour. We did not tire in this time.”
” [The] musicians are involved in the dance not just playing their instruments (Piano/ Viola da Gamba/Voice). It is not dramatic like the works of Graham or Humphrey or Weidman. The time is not one time, but many, as the scores stretch from 16th century songs by J. Dowland, William Byrd and Henry Purcell to the sounds of Pierre Boulez and music composed for the work by Yannis Kyriakides, Martijn Padding and Han Otten and Wiebe de Boer/SoundPalette.”
” We were transported through time. A section with rippling spines felt like the timeless oceans. Movement flowed and then suddenly shifted, transforming the body taking on an entirely different effort.”
” Let us please continue on this trend Dancecleveland. It was marvelous!”
Toegevoegd door Susan Miller op 11 mei 2008
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