Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Nederlands Dans Theatre 2 reviewed for Globe

Last week's NDT2 performance will not make dance critic Thea Singer's list of her favorite things (I can't speak to doorbells, sleighbells or schnitzels with noodle), but she did enjoy one of the pieces:

"Just four minutes long, [Shutters Shut] - danced with crackling wit by Jin
Young Won and Anton Valdbauer - brings Gertrude Stein's 1912 poem 'If I
told him: A completed portrait of Picasso' to snapping life. Lightfoot
Leon's gestural vocabulary - scratches and tongue licks, head wags and
he-man posturing - translates Stein's perseverative rhythmic
meanderings into a whole new medium. It's not a music but a word
visualization - each syllable, each beat embodied and made full-blown."

My only quibble is that the choreographers in question are Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, not "Lightfoot Leon." Though NDT2s materials were quite ambiguous on this point and to date have created numerous Lightfoot Leon's all over the web.

So there, posted for your pleasure, are the positive bits. Here, in the interest of transparency (if you consider linking to something a newspaper has published transparency), is the link to the rest: Their journey stops short.

P.S. - I agree with Thea about the dancers: they're fantastic.



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