DANCE
review: Dreams deferred in dance
Courtesy
of CPAC
By
Monica Levette Clark
On-line Forty-Niner
Balance,
strength, emotions and physicality fused
in Diavolo Dance Theater's "DreamCatcher,"
which debuted Friday in the Carpenter
Performing Arts Center. In a series of
seemingly unconnected and incomplete ideas,
dancers from the L.A.-based dance company
tested their limits on a 5,000-pound apparatus,
dangling and jumping to what could have
been their deaths. The newest dance creation
by Jacques Heim, the company's artistic
director, was inspired by the Native American
spiritual belief that weigh the outcome
of good and bad dreams. Monotonous repetition
and unnecessary nudity, coupled with wild
acrobatics and sharp movements, made "DreamCatcher,"
unsuccessful in its effort to convey any
message. The end result was a dance company
trying to be the next Cirque du Soleil,
but without colorful, creature costumes.
