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October 27 - November 2, 2005
By Hilary Ostlere
We must not forget there’s plenty of dance activity going on elsewhere
besides City Center. One of its more hallowed locations is Dancespace
Project at St. Mark’s Church on East 10th St. Here not too long
ago the veteran modern dancer Richard Daniels had a recital of his own
and other choreographers’ work. Daniels, now in his fifties, is
an artist who resumed his career after a hiatus of 15 years, owing to
tragic personal events. His new “Apollo & The Muses,”
to the Stravinsky score so famously choreographed by Balanchine, looked
well in the open space of St. Marks with its wide stairs at one end. Choreographing
for five dancers, Dusan Tynek (himself a promising choreographer) portrayed
the youthful Apollo, Keith Sabado the mature one. Regina Larkin, Emmanuel
Phuon and Megan Williams were the three muses, the last being a tempestuous
Terpsichore.
With Their silver and white costumes and spreading wing effect, the twin
Apollos ably interpreted Daniels’ conception of the myth, at one
point somersaulting over each other. Sabado, in an impressively slow and
dignified promenade up the stairs with his attendant muses, ensured a
godly finale.
A particular plus of this performance was the inspired and forceful playing
of the Stravinsky reduction of the piano score by Nurit Tilles, who added
an exceptional artistic dimension to the evening.
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