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Article: POMARE POWER ENLIVENS OMEGA EVENING.(Alpha Omega Dance Theater's Narcissus Rising)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
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- October 1, 2001
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POMARE POWER ENLIVENS
OMEGA EVENING
ALPHA OMEGA DANCE
THEATER OF THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MAY 25-26, 2001
For all the high-intensity dynamics that dominated the works presented by Alpha Omega Dance, it was a solo whose intensity came from the simplest gestures that dominated the senses. That solo, Eleo Pomare's classic 1968 Narcissus Rising, not only demonstrated the enduring power of his work, but also unintentionally highlighted the shallowness of other works on the program, all of them more recent creations than this protest-era piece.
That Narcissus Rising, a solo created for and identified with men, was danced by a woman (Donna ...