The result is elegant and athletic, explosive and restrained, freely associative and formally structured. Edgardo Moreno's music compels the dancers into full-bodied, expressive movement, avoiding cliches while invoking solitude, despair, comfort, community, distress, aid, battle and escape. Industrial motors drone against layered piano and violin, borrowing subtle klezmer influences alongside cantorial-like chants to form a strongly integrated score. Jyri Suominen's lighting provides directional and motivational atmosphere. Frequently off-kilter on the ground and during lifts, they never lose balance.
Works based on the Holocaust frequently feel overwrought.
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