Modern Dance Hold’em
Lassoing is a surprising through-line for a Martha Graham Dance Company performance. The theme steps generally tend towards the child-birthing variety: contractions and deep squats.
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It is always an exhilarating experience to leave a dance concert eagerly chatting in agreement with those around you about that one favorite piece. Yet it is perhaps the sign of an even stronger concert when those around you are instead in amicable disagreement, each passionately arguing why his or her favorite piece was the “one.” So was the case with Jessica Lang Dance, presented by Celebrity Series of Boston at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre last week. Highlighting six works from 2006-16, the concert offered a satisfying range of visual intrigue—from the purity of a Bach-accompanied solo with an air of traditional ballet (aptly titled “Solo Bach”) to the creatively complex merging of fluid contemporary choreography and dynamic video projection in “i.n.k.” Exiting the theater, one could hear all six pieces being deeply discussed, yet the end result was all surprisingly similar: Regardless of what the viewer’s favorite work was, it was “moving,” “visually striking,” and “made one think.”
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Jessica Lang's “The Calling.” Photograph by Robert Torres
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Lassoing is a surprising through-line for a Martha Graham Dance Company performance. The theme steps generally tend towards the child-birthing variety: contractions and deep squats.
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