Swan Lake Samba Girl – best reviewer I know.
Here’s part of her take on a recent performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato’s modern dance troupe, Compania Nacional de Danza.
She makes me miss NYC, but better, she gives me such a wonderful idea of what it would have been like to be there…
Swan Lake Samba Girl
When the three groups danced together, the movement all became fluid and lyrical to me — making it both beautiful and violent and frightening. It seemed at times the ‘manly’ men would take on some of the more lyrical charms of the sopranos, symbolizing the fluid nature of masculinity, of gender, perhaps. Basically, what I loved about this piece was that it both made me think about the nature of masculinity and the issue of castration — it produced beauty but at what cost? — and it stimulated my visual and aural senses with the beauty of the movement and music. So, it engaged me both intellectually and sensually, which, to me, is what the best art does.
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