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Article: COLKER'S GIDDY SPIN.(Review)
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- Dance Magazine
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- May 1, 2000
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COLKER'S GIDDY SPIN COMPANHIA DE DANCA DEBORAH COLKER JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 16-20, 20000
Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker's Rota (1997) is an embarrassment of riches, so chock-full of wonderful ideas that they crowd each other. Colker's imagination is so fertile that she tends to squander ideas; each half of her two-act, ninety-minute Rota could easily be expanded to fill an evening. Joined by seven men and seven women trained within an inch of their lives in ballet, gymnastics, and yoga, Colker creates a kaleidoscope of kinetic images, from ridiculous to sublime. The energetic dancers are obviously capable of any physical feat she ...