Sunday, November 25, 2012

"The Lamborghini of Dance"


 
I am stealing the sentence from the British newspaper The Independent who use it to praise the Nederlands Dans Theater 1. 

The came to the Oslo Opera House and their modern dance left me so energized, I can still feel it the effect two days later.
 
We saw two acts Sehnsucht and Schmetterling.  They have a formidable dance dialogue, a simple but sophisticated set design, for example a and revolving house. They made us laugh but they also made us melancholic.
 
Beethoven, Max Richter and The Magnetic Fields joined the party.

One of the best tricks came where about 20 men came out to the state wearing nothing but loose black trousers.  And little by little as they moved around you realized there were among 4 ballerinas in the group who passed by men but where dancing without covering their breasts - just like male dancers have done for forever.   (They reversed the trend in the second act when men and women dressed  alike, this time wearing black dresses).