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Article: Free Radicals. (Joyce Theater, New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
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- March 1, 1998
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Graeme Murphy, artistic director of Sydney Dance Company, just might be the Maurice Bejart of modern dance. In his 1996 work, Free Radicals, which the Australian company presented during its first New York engagement in ten years, the excesses of the let-us-gather-in-a-pagan-circle-and-dance aesthetic are combined with the seduction of rhythm that currently draws crowds to Stomp and Riverdance.
Free Radicals differs from these other productions, however, because Murphy intends to make Art. From the opening moments, in which dancer Xue-Jun Wang writes Mandarin characters on his chest and counts them out (only to count them backward and wipe them off a little ...