Anaphase.WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 1, 1998 REVIEWED BY ALEXANDRA TOMALONIS It's all so dishearteningly familiar. The curtain is raised, the backstage area exposed. A semicircle of chairs, the center one temporarily vacant. The dancing begins. Men in dresses, women in suits. Anonymous twitching twitching, n an irregular spasm of a minor extent. twitching, Trousseau's, n.pr a twitching of the face that the patient can exhibit at will and occurs obsessively to relieve tension. , falling, rolling bodies. Choreography that challenges the dancers' sweat glands (Anat.) sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous. See also: Sweat . Ah, dance, the universal language. Tanztheater, in its Neofascist Chic manifestation, not the more gentle Flowers and Angst angst 1 n. A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression. angst 2 abbr. angstrom one, has made it to Israel. Anaphase anaphase /ana·phase/ (an´ah-faz) the third stage of division of the nucleus in either meiosis or mitosis. an·a·phase n. , Batsheva Dance Company's not-very-original contribution to the genre, opened the Kennedy Center's celebration, Art of the State: Israel at 50. Anaphase is the work of kibbutz-raised Ohad Naharin Ohad Naharin (born 1952, Israel) is a dancer and choreographer. Naharin studied at Juilliard and with the Martha Graham company before returning to Israel to direct the Batsheva Dance Company, which was founded in 1964 by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild. , who has directed Batsheva since 1990, but, alas, seems to have spent muck time abroad. Naharin is a forceful director and competent craftsman cliche after cliche tumbles laboriously from his imagination and clatters onto the stage, but they do tumble logically. They are cliches in search of a theme, however. In Anaphase Naharin seems to have run out of significant ideas quickly and has to work hard to fill out the evening with movement and movement substitutes (talking, singing, pounding). Everything takes forever (the dancers walk slowly across the stage on the diagonal, beating huge inverted inverted reverse in position, direction or order. inverted L block a pattern of local filtration anesthesia commonly used in laparotomy in the ox. plastic water coolers. Then they walk slowly back, on the other diagonal, beating huge ...). Everything is loud. (The rock music is played at assault level.) The audience is commanded to stand; individuals are allowed to sit only when they can affirmatively answer such questions as: "Do you make more than $250,000 a year?" Later, women are taken from the audience and led onstage by the dancers. They dance. Everyone laughs at them. They return. There's still twenty minutes to go. Why? Why? Why? Why are the dancers so anonymous, so dehumanized? Anaphase is billed as being a combination of "theater, dance, opera, film, and rock music," but the opera is a song; the film, words in different typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
A plea to Ohad Naharin and his many, many colleagues: Rebel. Change the world. But for God's sake, do it soon. |
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