Pre-opening story about “West Side Story” by Sasha Weiss (New York Times magazine)
[choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker] was exploring ideas of the horizontal, rolling and falling and lying down, but also of defying gravity, rising, leaping, propelling the body with knifelike arms.
…Alexander Gemignani reminded [the cast] that the score is full of jaggedness and dissonance, intervals that make the hair on your neck stand on end.
Print ad “quote” attributed to Weiss:
“This gravity-defying ‘West Side Story’ makes the hair on your neck stand on end.” |
