Ballet Preljocaj

[Alexandra]

Nancy Dalva reviews Ballet Preljocaj for DanceView Times:

A Decorative Life

Angelin Preljocaj's "Near Life Experience" is decorative, complicated, symbolist, at once vague—as to meaning—and weirdly specific—as to sets, costumes, and props. These include balls of red yarn, life guard-type chairs, wine glasses attached to body, glass spheres, and other paraphernalia that make the French choreographer look like the New Age Alwin Nikolai, with a little Merce Cunningham and a little Butoh thrown in. The eighty-minute work seems to take place in a glacial crevasse, bright, shadowed, white, luminous. It seems to be about being about to be born, or being about to die, or various states that, in some lesser way, mimic these conditions. (Sex, for instance.) Being French, the company wears chic costumes—white or black shirts and briefs giving way to creamy lingerie giving way to half nudity. You have no doubt that the company of twelve is talented, beautiful, smooth, desirable.

[andycrawford]

thanks for posting.I love Angelin Preljocaj

he never leaves out a detail