Since "Three Dubious Memories," the other premiere last week, was also thin, the season has gotten off to a disappointing start.
She has been featured in diverse roles in "De Sueños que se Repiten" (2008), "Beloved Renegade" (2008), "Brief Encounters" (2009) and "Three Dubious Memories" (2010).
The program's centerpiece was "Three Dubious Memories" (the Opus No. 133, new last October); its finale was "Oh, You Kid!" (a 1999 work to ragtime music).
In it, we see Taylor, in 2010, putting together his "Three Dubious Memories," a "Rashomon -like piece in which the paRashomon -likee triangle remember, in different ways, what hapieced.
In "Three Dubious Memories" Mr. Taylor takes up the idea of the Kurosawa film "Rashomon" — a sex-and-violence story about two men and a woman told three different ways — and plays with it.
February 24 2011 March 6 6 2011 The company returns to New York for its annual run with two new dances, "Three Dubious Memories" — a dark piece about a conflicted love triangle, told from different points of view — and "Phantasmagoria," a lighter work set to Renaissance music.
In that one, "Three Dubious Memories," Mr. Taylor was inspired by the idea of telling a story three times, contrasting the brightly dressed main characters (in red, green and blue) with the Choristers (in gray), led by the rigorous James Samson as Choirmaster.
A surfeit of dubious "brain" and "memory" pills and techniques prey on people's anxieties.
Or, as Watson recalls at the start of the original story: "To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman... in his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex... and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory".
Further, it may be dubious to see Peter's memory as "shifty" between environments where (i) comes to express a false memory about Twin Pavarotti, even though the memory was caused by Pavarotti on Earth (in the normal way).
