Monday and Tuesday's Downtown Dance Festival performances launched the new Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance in a blaze of color. Alastair Macauley, Chief Dance Critic of the New York Times graced us with a splendid review and three wonderful photos! Here's a sample of the review:
The long-held opening tableau of four young women was a thrill, a harmonious grouping (not unlike the famous Romantic ballet lithograph of the 1845 Pas de Quatre, resembling a four-leaf clover), arms all directed along a single diagonal, save for one, powerfully aimed the opposite way. Indian dance can often have unparalleled powers of sculptural fullness; in this case that sense registered before the performers executed a step.
Macauley even delighted us by bringing in the spirit of Edwin Denby, the late great dance writer. We are most grateful!
Friday, August 22, 2008
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