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Article: Toronto Dance Theatre. (Joyce Theater, New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
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- March 1, 1994
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When he was leaving Martha Graham's fold in the 1940s, modernist visionary Merce Cunningham noted "that in the modern dance, they used the torso, the back a great deal, the legs not so much. In the ballet, on the other hand, they used the legs a great deal, the arms too ... and the back not so much.... I wondered if there were some ways to put them together."
Toronto Dance Theatre, founded in 1968 by Peter Randazzo, Patricia Beatty, and David Earle, each with a Graham connection, currently showcases the work of Christopher House, its youthful associate artistic director and one of its dancers. On the strength of the three House works that dominated the four-part ...