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Article: Mozart flavors Sponge Cake Far from usual fare, Boulder troupe dances to a classic.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 18, 2006
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Byline: Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News
In a rehearsal room at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts, Robert Sher-Machherndl pushes the play button, and the grim drama of Mozart's C-minor Fugue propels two dancers into nonstop motion.
The Austrian-born dancemaker is not the first to be inspired by Mozart - and he's certainly not the only one drawn to the composer in this year marking the 250th anniversary of his birth. Still, this is something new and unexpected.
On Saturday and Sunday in Chautauqua Auditorium, Sher-Machherndl and three women from his Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet will dance the premiere of BluePrints/Mozart 250 - his ...