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Article: Elisa Monte Dance Company. (Joyce Theater, New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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Though sleekly assured in its dancing, the Elisa Monte Dance Company lacks individuality in its dances. The company seems to depend on eclecticism, but also carries it as a sort of burden. The dancers, thoroughly trained, are robust in their energy and well-rounded in their abilities - precise in the way of ballet dancers, at home like modern dancers with weight and the ground, and also rhythmically persuasive. Still, the eclecticism of the repertoire crosses borders between genres with enough ease that something gets lost. Maybe the dancers need to be challenged differently, not by symmetry but by surprises. Or maybe what they do now is more than enough: Audiences enjoy ...
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...ELISAMONTEDANCE Joyce Theater Closed Elisa Monte processes life's disasters, intimate or global in scale Elisa Monte began to create her now programlength Via Sacra (Sacred Road) as an exploration of personal loss and the eventual emergence ...
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