Zenon Dance Company's Fall 2009 Dance Concert

Nicholas P Heille 11/24/2009 2:16:00 AM

City Pages: Zenon's Fall 2009 Program is a bold work that deserves a more serious look than done by the frothy superlatives of the City Pages reviewer. "The Laws of Falling Bodies" is an ode to Sept 11th and the people that in fear jumped to their deaths. The dance ends with the emotion elegiac removal of two dancers over the heads of the other dancers. The choreographer Skybeter's vita includes too many references to New York City to make it impossible for him to deny he has captured the magnitude of the Sept 11th event. I found "Biida" is about the absurdity of living in Israel with the constant threat of annihilation by the Palestinians. The dance creator Andrea Miller, through Klezmer tunes and Middle Eastern melodies has produced a fantastic work that shows a determination to survive against a backdrop of gallows humor. "Filament" desperately needs a subtitle to help understand what this strong wound work is about, or, maybe the choreographer should turn the light at the start of the dance rather than the end. "Not from Texas" is pure fun! "Here, now that you are gone." goes from romance to the tension of separation. It would have been better to have gone from tension to the romance. Perhaps the dance creator is a cynic of love. GOOD LUCK! Nicholas P Heille 3460 Garfield St NE' Mpls MN 55418 612-789-6527