{"id":3434,"date":"2012-01-25T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irasperipheralvisions.com\/WetPaint\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2012-01-26T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:13:33","slug":"peridance-contemporary-dance-company-preview-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irasperipheralvisions.com\/WetPaint\/peridance-contemporary-dance-company-preview-performance.htm","title":{"rendered":"Peridance Contemporary Dance Company – Preview Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peridance Contemporary Dance Company<\/a>
\nPreview Performance
\nSaturday, January 21, 2012
\nSalvatore Capezio Theater<\/p>\n

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Peridance Contemporary Dance Company has been on hiatus since 2007 as the Peridance Capezio Center went through a transition, moving to new quarters with its own in-house theater.\u00a0 In Fall 2011, the company re-emerged.\u00a0 The concert that I saw at the Capezio Theater was a preview performance, leading up to a formal season this coming May.\u00a0 The company offered a nicely varied program which showcased a group of gorgeous charismatic dancers and imaginative choreographers.<\/p>\n

The program opened with an excerpt from Igal Perry\u2019s Constructs for 4<\/em>, beautifully danced by Shay Bares, Nikki Holck, Zach Thomas and Andrew Trego to the music of J.S. Bach.\u00a0 As with much of Perry\u2019s choreography, classical ballet is at the core, but the movement is very much contemporary. \u00a0 Balanchine’s influence seems present during certain passages of this quartet, but Perry’s elegant formations speak in an updated voice with atmospheres that are more modern.\u00a0 I especially loved the lifts, which seemed so effortless.\u00a0 I was also taken by the way that the movement seems to open up so beautifully at moments when the strings reach the end of a phrase.\u00a0 Perry\u2019s choreography and this group of dancers are extremely musical.<\/p>\n

Leading from Behind<\/em>, choreographed by Greg Dolbashian, received its World Premiere.\u00a0 It\u2019s a modern piece set to electronic industrial music by Loscil.\u00a0 The music is quite menacing and tension is building as the dance opens with one man standing apart from a group of five women.\u00a0 The women line up shoulder to shoulder.\u00a0 The line becomes a motif that reappears throughout the dance, and much of the featured movement stands apart from the line.\u00a0 I especially liked one section in which the movement seems to spin off from or move through the line.\u00a0 One or two dancers will work apart from the line and as the dance goes on, it seems as if a series of battles of the will ensue.\u00a0 The choreography is clever and unpredictable.\u00a0 This piece was performed by Peridance\u2019s Youth Ensemble, a group of strong, confident and well trained students who show great promise.<\/p>\n

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Kristin Sudeikis\u2019s jazzy I am yo<\/em>u was also given its World Premiere.\u00a0 The dancers all wear black pants, but the men are bare chested and the women are wearing nude colored tops.\u00a0 The dancers seem stripped down to explore issues of identity and influence, and the piece even includes Chorus Line type sections in which the dancers face the audience and speak to describe themselves, or perhaps to describe aspects of the human condition.\u00a0 The piece had an uplifting Broadway feel and the audience responded with great enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

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Igal Perry\u2019s El Amor Brujo<\/em>, set to the gorgeous score by Manuel da Falla, is a moving piece with a flamenco flavor.\u00a0 It is touching, bittersweet and packed with emotion.\u00a0 In the original libretto by Gregorio Martinez, the young gypsy woman Candela has lost her husband Jose, but Jose\u2019s spirit continues to haunt Candela and won\u2019t release her to her lover Carmelo.\u00a0 Perry tells the story with a slight twist \u2013 he sees Candela and Jose as being divorced rather than separated by death.\u00a0 Jose isn\u2019t a ghostly spirit, but a physical presence in the story.<\/p>\n

Nikki Holck\u2019s Candela made my heart ache as she passes from her lover Carmelo (played by Attila Csiki) to her husband Jose (played by Andrew Trego).\u00a0 With quiet gestures and Perry\u2019s imaginative choreography, she clearly expresses two different kinds of love.\u00a0 Though Candela and Jose are no longer together and have to move on, they embrace as if to respect the love they once had, even though they are now resigned to love each other from a distance.<\/p>\n

Jose is a proud and masculine character, but beneath the surface he\u2019s wounded.\u00a0 I was really taken by the way that Trego\u2019s movement revealed Jose\u2019s vulnerability.\u00a0 Joanna DeFelice is the very image of quiet strength as she dances the role of Lucia, the woman with whom Jose falls in love, allowing him to loosen his grip on Candela and let her go.\u00a0 Attila Csiki moves with such elegance and he expresses such tenderness as the romantic hero Carmelo.\u00a0 Some of my favorite passages in the dance are the ones in which the four characters move together at close quarters, with Candela weaving through the formation from one man to the other.<\/p>\n

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The ensemble delivers a very strong and stirring performance that really touched my heart.\u00a0 What affected me most about this dance was the subtlety with which the story is told.\u00a0 Perry and his dancers trust the audience and allow us to experience the emotion of the story without the use of cliched characterizations.\u00a0 The choreography never travels in the predictable direction. The dance truly does do all the talking and the story unfolds in a beautiful quiet fashion.\u00a0 I also appreciated the details.\u00a0 When the focus turns to the main characters, the company fills out the composition with lovely movement on the sidelines.\u00a0 Subtle lighting is used to strong affect too, in conjunction with projections along the back wall of the stage.<\/p>\n

This is a wonderful dance that I\u2019m looking forward to seeing again.<\/p>\n

The Peridance Contemporary Dance Company will present its major New York City season this May, featuring works by Igal Perry, Kristin Sudeikis and Sidra Bell.\u00a0 Be sure to see one of their shows at the Salvatore Capezio Theater.\u00a0 Dates are May 5 and 6, 12 and 13, 2012.\u00a0 Visit their web site<\/a>\u00a0 for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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