Lights black out and return; another man stands alone, picking up the thread of the dance on the bare stage.
These moments of simplicity are wonderfully threaded through this great spread of dance, as if to say that dance, though it can certainly include virtuosity, is also something for you and me.
ARDIENTE (Thursday) This first performance by Julio Arroyo's company reflects his interest in the common threads in just about every form of dance and his inspiration from other choreographers, among them Jessica Kondrath and five other guest artists on the program.
(Roslyn Sulcas) COMPANIA.ARROYO.ARDIENTE (Tonight and Sunday) This first performance by Julio Arroyo's company reflects his interest in the common threads in just about every form of dance and his inspiration from other choreographers, among them Jessica Kondrath and five other guest artists on the program.
There is the sense of a complete, enclosed world to the ballet, a somber yet hopeful winter landscape across which three couples thread in a long, smoothly unfolding skein of dance.
But as the dance builds, the thread of the choreography binds the trio tighter and the high, precious balances that toss Guillem to further and further extremes create a mesmerising scenario of combat and trust.
Ellen Cornfield, who danced with Merce Cunningham, will present her new "Thread," a dance inspired by the DNA double helix code of life and set to music by John King, as well as a new solo and a recent multimedia group work.
"The common thread that brings us all together is that we sound alien, but are still very much focused on some form of dance music for club consumption".
If successful, he follows up with abdominal wags and the "mating thread dance," consisting of web plucks and bounces.
HUNTINGTON Kaleidoscope of Dance.
