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[DANCE REVIEW] Choreftes at Jacob's Pillow
8.19.06
An Oddly Unemotional Portrait of Disconnectedness
By ROSLYN SULCAS
Published: August 19, 2006
BECKET, Mass., Aug. 18 -- “Many of you must have wondered about the contemporary dance scene in Greece,” said Ella Baff, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival's executive director, in introducing the Athens-based company Choreftes before its American debut in the Doris Duke Studio Theater on Thursday night.
It is possible that most of the audience had never spared a thought for the contemporary dance scene in Greece. But dance companies of any sort from that country are indeed a rarity on the international circuit, and Ms. Baff should be applauded for seeking them out.
Choreftes -- the name means dancers in Greek -- was founded in 1993 by Aliki Kazouri, Maria Anthymidou and Michalis Nalbantis. Their choice for Jacob's Pillow was Ms. Kazouri's “Behind Her Eyes,” a work for eight dancers that pays obvious debts to Pina Bausch in its examination of alienated male-female relationships while extolling an intermittently athletic physicality.
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