Word: pilobolus
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...Holocaust too big for art? It depends on the artists. In A Selection, which debuted in New York City recently, the members of Pilobolus team up with children's authors Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks to compress the ultimate nightmare into an indelibly fearful fable about a troupe of traveling players who miss the last train out of Nazi Germany. Otis Cook gives the performance of a lifetime as a lewdly smirking stranger dressed in death-camp gray who meets them at the station. The music is by Hans Krasa and Pavel Haas, two composers who died in Auschwitz...
...three-quarters of the students go on to some form of higher education. "Some will become dancers," Chase says. "Others will take the training and discipline and do something else with it." Cleotha McJunkins III, 17, the lithe, stage-savvy prince of An Urban Nutcracker, longs to join Pilobolus and eventually start his own company. "I know I want to dance," he says...
This is An Urban Nutcracker, the latest and most ambitious product of a five-year collaboration between Alison Chase, a founding member of the innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre, and Bill Wade, director of YARD (Youth at Risk Dancing), a company of teenagers drawn from the student body of the Cleveland School of the Arts. It's hardly the first time The Nutcracker has been updated: Mark Morris' raucous The Hard Nut is set in postmodern suburbia, while Donald Byrd's Harlem Nutcracker uses Duke Ellington's swinging adaptation of Tchaikovsky's score. But An Urban Nutcracker has a special ring...
Sappington's Slide is savvy show biz; maybe Jerome Robbins should take a bow too. In the finale, Pucci, who was an engaging clown with the Pilobolus troupe during the '80s, lightens things up with cheerful, back-lit aerobics. In a pas de deux that manages to be both steamy and droll, he may be offering an opinion on pointe work, particularly when he has the ballerina (Jodie Gates) aim her toe shoe into her prostrate partner's mouth...
Dance Umbrella. Presents Pilobolus. Program A on Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. Program B on Oct. 28 and Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., Boston. $17-$26. Call 931-3100 for tickets and more information...