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Article: Bay Area Repertory Dance/East.(Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
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- October 1, 1995
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June 15-18, 1995 Reviewed by Doris Hering
After his 1968 departure from the Martha Graham Dance Company, David Wood became a professor at Berkeley and earned a reputation as a choreographer in the Bay Area. Now retired, he assembled a group of his dancers for this retrospective, the company's New York debut.
Over the years, Wood has gradually relinquished his Graham roots. His style blends fluidity of movement with formality of structure. And yet the earliest work on the program, The House of Bernarda Alba, first performed in 1970, turned out to be the strongest.
Based upon the hot-blooded Garcia Lorca play about a Spanish widow and her repressed ...