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Brute Beauty Levydance 2005 East Coast Tour Four visions of hell and only one exit! Levydance's 2005 collection gives a view of existence that's grim but, by program's end, powerfully gripping. "Holding Pattern" starts where Sartre's play, "No Exit", didwith the difference that the dance's eternal triangle consists of two men and one woman. This is the most civilized of the four dances as the protagonists engage each other competitively and sensually through "conversation" i.e., recognizable choreography. The movement is emotionally charged and often appears realistically passionate, yet dance is discernible under the smoldering surface and patterns emerge from the action. The next generation, the two women and two men of "The Second to Last Person on Earth", rely more on game playing, social dance and other organized forms of interaction than spontaneous engagement. Yet they too seem condemned to go on with each other forever. Both pieces stop without a true ending. Third is a vision of solitary confinement titled "if this small space". A man is trapped in a cube of light. His quivers become spasms, but when he is able to control his movements and begins to seek escape, there is no way to break out of the prison. The only way to exit is to stop moving. As his body becomes still, the light fades and his cell, his cube, dissolves into darkness. Is death the only exit from hell, and is that even possible? Probably not, because the last work, "Violent Momentum", again shows the eternally trapped. Another foursome, two males and two females, who attack each other, insanely and sexually. Alone, they are rigid or beset with tremors. All together, they experience orgiastic release but afterwards their anger and fear seemed about to build again. Volume 3, No. 41
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