The odd dancer would do the odd phrase of semi-pedestrian movement with just a hint of dance rhythm.
Cuba has one fairly old, fairly large modern-dance company, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, founded in 1959, the year of the Revolution, and numbering thirty-odd dancers.
A workshop for 80-odd dancers features daily classes that include low-flying trapeze, upside-down movement, bungee and aerial hoop, fabric, pole and choreography.
The first beneficiaries were the LCDT (with 20-odd dancers) and Ballet Rambert (now a modern dance company), while over a longer period she also persuaded the council to release cash to smaller companies such as Extemporary and Strider – which were based in London but toured the country – as well as to independent dancers.
5800 people in the audience watched as 20-odd singers, dancers and musicians focused their talents in the Art Deco auditorium.
And he noticed that there were a couple of things odd about these dancers on the swarm.
In another odd sequence, two dancers climb into supported poses around what looks like an orthopaedic chair.
I don't mind duets in which they never look at each other, but it's odd to see dancers advancing without once looking ahead, solos in which nobody ever looks outward, ensembles in which everybody looks piously down as if saying prayers.
It is in their honor, and to show the doors they opened, that Houston-Jones has mounted a thirtieth-anniversary program, again named "Parallels," at Danspace — an eight-week series, with forty-odd choreographers and dancers, most of them considerably younger than the 1982 group.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It is in their honor, and to show the doors they opened, that Houston-Jones has mounted a thirtieth-anniversary program, again named "Parallels," at Danspace — an eight-week series, with forty-odd choreographers and dancers, most of them considerably younger than the 1982 group.
As the work zips through its 18 short sections, it transports its dancers through odd and often thrilling environments.
