Portraits of a Lady
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Midway through “Frontera,” the dancers of Animals of Distinction, a multimedia dance company based out of Montreal, press their bodies into each other to form a line at the bottom of a large rectangle of blue light. Blocking the light with their backs, they form a human tunnel for the ends of the line to disappear through. Two by two, they slip, undetected by the monitoring light, under an archway of limbs and into the darkness upstage until only a single dancer is left. Their lone silhouette is captured before joining the others in “another world.”
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