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Article: Leaps and bounds
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- May 12, 2006
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Leaps and bounds
Li Chiao-Ping flexes her muscular style
Last week's "Arrivals and Departures" at the H'Doubler Performance Space wasn't my absolute favorite among Li Chiao-Ping Dance concerts, but it came close.
The current incarnation of Li's company looked strong. The repertory was varied and interesting. The opener, "L'Année du Chien," a 1995 piece for three women, honored the Lunar Year of the Dog with clever canine capers - intent, pouncing leaps; foot fixations on all fours, lifting legs; group chases. The soundtrack panted; puppy pics beamed from the backdrop.
But mutty metaphors mixed tenuously with the business of humans. The dogs were stunningly more simpatico than their ...