Did anyone else go to see the Limon company at the Kennedy Center last week? I saw them for the first time on Friday - it was very interesting to see after only seeing photos of the company from the early days in various dance books. I have to say that I preferred some of the newer works, although "Psalm" was a little on the long side.
I was really looking forward to seeing "The Moor's Pavane", since the photos that I'd seen of that piece looked so dramatic. Seeing the piece made me wonder what it must have been like to see Limon himself perform it - what was the level of theatricality then vs. now? I thought it was well done, but one of the men was not very dramatic (I thought), and I got the sense that it didn't have the same feeling that it have had at one time? It speaks to a larger question that I'm sure people have discussed here before - have dancers/companies lost dramatic capability over the years in the quest for technical perfection? Or have audiences lost the ability to recognize it? Or both? (I'm not saying that none of the Limon dancers were dramatic - one woman in particular was very expressive (Kristin Foote?), as well as the central character in Psalm, and the dancer who played The Moor).
Anyway - did anyone else see them?