Amar Ramasar and Robert Fairchild do a severe, puritanical dance to liturgical-sounding chant.
This was supposed to be the year that opera upstaged flamenco in Seville, birthplace of those severe, stomping dances and haunting songs.
It is severe, old-school modern dance characterized by a stark emphasis on the body's weight; no complaints there.
Here the performers abandoned period dress for modern wear, graduating from severe black and white dance clothes to yellow and black shorts and shirts in changes that accompanied the steadily increasing playfulness of Mr. Bauer's choreography.
A leg injury he received was so severe that he did not dance again for 25 years.
Morleigh Steinberg has been working together with Japanese choreographer and dancer Oguri since the early 1990s, documenting Oguri's severe, Butoh-derived style of dance in various environments, including Joshua Tree National Park and Los Angeles.
No one took issue with what might be considered a much more severe criticism, that the two danced "without adult depth or complexity".
Equally vital are the constant intensity of his focus on his partner, with whom he is often brow to brow or cheek to cheek throughout the dance, and his sculptural, severe allure.
In Section 3.1.1, we outlined the reasons why the rotation of the rigid body attached to the body-center is restricted to rotations around the vertical axis without having too severe consequences for the freedom of dance performances.
And on Friday night, the techno minimalist RICHIE HAWTIN comes to town for a dance party with a seemingly severe soundtrack.
Abramovitz's concert hall and Johnson's dance theatre endured similar if less severe compromises.
