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[DANCE REVIEW] Rubberbandance at Jacob's Pillow

8.26.06
Taking 2 Volatile Forms and Mixing, Carefully

By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: August 26, 2006

BECKET, Mass., Aug. 25 -- Both ballet and breaking offer immense kinesthetic thrills, so it seems safe to anticipate significant sensual pleasures from a choreographer like Victor Quijada, whose aesthetic is billed as a mix of classical and hip-hop dance forms.

But fusion is a tricky thing. In introducing Mr. Quijada and his Montreal-based Rubberbandance Group at their Jacob's Pillow debut on Wednesday night, the festival's executive director, Ella Baff, promised a “very fresh and very unusual” blend. Yet the program, “Elastic Perspective,” felt oddly dated and flat -- more a careful arrangement of disparate traditions than organic, urgently felt innovation.

The 75-minute program was split in two; the loosely narrative “Hasta la Proxima,” about 25 minutes long, followed a first half consisting of six short pieces. The scores to these six pieces varied widely, from excerpts of Prokofiev's “Romeo and Juliet” for the opening quintet, “Secret Service,” to the spoken-word artist Saul Williams for “Exercise in Wholeness and Awareness,” a solo for Mr. Quijada. But the mood and movement palette stayed static, and a bit too self-serious.

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