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Dance TRaC Winter 2004
Last Touch: Nederlans Dans Theater @ BAM The lights go down, and you are suddenly transported to the Victorian era, location unknown. NDT, known for their elaborate set design, has done it again. Six dancers, three male, three female, are arranged about the inside/outside of a living room. Furnishings are completed by two tables, a rocking chair, an armchair, a mirror and a giant drop cloth that covers the entire floor. With the music, a rhythmically pulsating piano piece, the dance begins. The characters take turns, moving with the speed of snails; first one, then another. Slowly, all the dancers "wake up" and everyone moves at once. It is at this point that the dance has started moving too fast. While you focus your attention on one side of the stage, the other undergoes radical transformations. While all this is happening, the dancers pair up male/female, male/female, male/female, each pair portraying a vitally different relationship between a man and a woman. Of course, there is a subtle sexual innuendo in each. Slowly, each pair goes through its motions, and slowly we see deeper into each relationship, until we hit the climax of the piece. The music stops, and out of nowhere comes an inhuman screech, piercing the silence and bringing darkness to the stage. One dancer breaks out of his reverie and throws his partner down, and begins burning pages of the book she was reading. Slowly things return to normal, and the dance makes its way back around to the beginning, signaling the end.
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