To begin, Lar Lubovitch is, and has always been a consummate choreographer who understands movement and music in such a pleasing and specific way. Saturday's performance (season November 14-18) opened with The
Legend of Ten (2010) a lush work with cannons, movement that covered the stage and sinuous circles beginning in an elbow and following through to the head and the rest of their bodies, only to begin again. Most special was Clifton Brown and Elisa Clark's beautifully tangled duet against the corps who sometimes entered with what looked like one of the snappy boys section from "West Side Story" when they sing "Cool." Only Lubovitch could do that and make it look so good. The gem of the evening was the daring, demanding and all out dancing required in Crisis Variations (2011). In truth, there is no way that anyone of these dancers (Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Brian McGinnis, Anthony Bocconi, Nicole Corea, Attila Joey Csiki, Reed Lu-plau, and Laura Rutledge) could have survived this work without truly giving in. They ran, they flopped, and they got up. They climbed, they lifted, and they were tangled. Their shapes were jagged, and angular and yet so smooth. Kudos to Lubovitch for making the music (based on) Franz Liszt's "Transcendental Etudes," dance in front of our eyes. A decidedly enigmatic duet was danced by Skarpetowska and McGinnis. Not a favorite, possibly because the costumes were so unflattering and took away from the beauty in the work, was this year's premiere, Transparent Things which drew from Pablo Picasso's "Family of Saltimbanques" (Entertainers, Street Performers).
Legend of Ten (2010) a lush work with cannons, movement that covered the stage and sinuous circles beginning in an elbow and following through to the head and the rest of their bodies, only to begin again. Most special was Clifton Brown and Elisa Clark's beautifully tangled duet against the corps who sometimes entered with what looked like one of the snappy boys section from "West Side Story" when they sing "Cool." Only Lubovitch could do that and make it look so good. The gem of the evening was the daring, demanding and all out dancing required in Crisis Variations (2011). In truth, there is no way that anyone of these dancers (Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Brian McGinnis, Anthony Bocconi, Nicole Corea, Attila Joey Csiki, Reed Lu-plau, and Laura Rutledge) could have survived this work without truly giving in. They ran, they flopped, and they got up. They climbed, they lifted, and they were tangled. Their shapes were jagged, and angular and yet so smooth. Kudos to Lubovitch for making the music (based on) Franz Liszt's "Transcendental Etudes," dance in front of our eyes. A decidedly enigmatic duet was danced by Skarpetowska and McGinnis. Not a favorite, possibly because the costumes were so unflattering and took away from the beauty in the work, was this year's premiere, Transparent Things which drew from Pablo Picasso's "Family of Saltimbanques" (Entertainers, Street Performers).
Katarzyna Skarpetowska and Brian McGinnis in "Crisis Variations."
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