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“Attractive Abstraction”

Dangerous and versatile are the choreographic phrases that form the attractive dance performance “Crush-Crease”, two choreographies that form the latest spectacle of Thomas Noone Dance. The work of this English dancer and choreographer, settled in Barcelona, and with his own company since the year 2000, represents a step ahead in the path of creator, and it exhibits talent and maturity, and also innovation.

Both choreographies form a unit. The dance is similar and both posses the same austerity, the abstraction and the lack of deliberate emotion. Another similarity is that its music belongs to two Italian contemporary composers. The last coincidence is that in both pieces the stage-space features a wall.

Crush is inspired by Stella Descending, a novel by Linn Ullman, and it is performed by two couples: two men and two women. The stage-space is threatened by an enormous inclined aluminium wall. The relation between these four beings is icy, their encounter are mathematical. There are no feelings, the dance is very physical, with an almost martial energy. The form in which the men send their partners into the space, and then gather them back with a spectacular synchronization gives to the piece a vertiginous pace.

In Crease, the dancers, three women and two men, lose their solemnity and are more dynamic. Here the wall is a limit which they wish to escape. The group work is powerful. Ana Cáceres, Ana Sanchez, Horne Horneman, Marijn Roelofsen and Núria Martinez are a first quality clay of in the hands of Noone.

Carmen del Val.

El Pais