Eri nakamura dancer with daughter nogales
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Organizing Committee: Head of Organizer.: Dr. Ir. Tuti Setyaningrum, Vice Head of Organizer.: Dr. Ir. R.R. Rukmowati Brotodjojo, Secretary.!
Arts
Dance
The dancers in Sadeh21 appear onstage one by one, moving with a limber, spider-like gait, simultaneously sharp and fluid.
As the 21 scenes (or fields, English for sadeh) shift, solos give way to pairs, groupings, circles and chorus lines.
Yet the images of the individual dancers—members of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company—are the ones that remain after the show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is over.
The dancers’ movements are transfixing: One dancer’s body shakes so rapidly that it seems closer to a jagged vibration on a video screen, a trick of technology rather than a live human; another thrums her legs against the floor as she lies on the stage.
A virile dancer in black delivers a stream of high-pitched gibberish, and a female dancer shows off her muscles—a masculine gesture—until a male dancer pulls her pants off.
The dancers’ wondrous elasticity combined with unexpected, sometimes comic motifs is Batsheva’s hallmark, honed by Ohad Naharin, 62.