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Dance
Rain,
Rainbow, Rain - Night Wind
Company:
Vindhäxor (Wind Witches)
Choreography:
Eva Lundqvist
Venue:
Glashuset, Spegelteatern, Stockholm
To
maintain the flow of movement when the wind suddenly
changes direction is the great challenge for the six
dancers in Eva Lundqvist's new production
Rain, Rainbow, Rain - Night Wind.
Every
single sequence of movements - there are perhaps ten of
them repeated and varied in continuously new
combinations during the one-hour performance - is deeply
anchored in the dancers. They command Eva Lundqvist's
unique free dance technique, which she developed at end
of the 1970's and which emanates from the body's
whirling centrifugal force, the circles and ellipses of
gravitation. The style of the Wind Witches is adamantly
consistent, unmistakable in its movements, typically
liberating.
Rain,
Rainbow, Rain - Night Wind
is abstract with a vengeance, or rather as obviously,
meditatively expressive as sand dunes, whirling leaves
or twirling snow.
Such
improvised nature poetry demands extensive body
knowledge and an absolute presence, in order to take
decisive leaps into the unknown. Alexandra Sende and Dan
Johanson have these qualities, even though Rain, Rainbow, Rain - Night Wind is an intimate ensemble
performance. A genuine flow requires that everyone
follows the directions of the wind together. Also the
Copenhagen duo LeLe's improvised flute and percussion
music forms part of the same flow.
Still
it is primarily Dan Johanson who, with his mercurial
movements, succeeds in creating small, syncopated black
holes in time. At moments he gives me the vertiginous
feeling of total stillness and weightlessness, right in
the eye of the storm.
Örjan
Abrahamsson - Dagens nyheter
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