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… this isn’t your Great Grandma’s Wizard of Oz. This one has more dancing (giant dancing bugs, crows, and apple trees with thick red lips right out of an acid trip, an edgy Emerald City gang in aviator glasses, and pyrotechnics that make your hair stand up.
Was it about a bus ride in a Third World Country? Sex? Bodies? Eric Geiger’s “Kingdom for Sale (better history)” made space for viewers’ imaginations.
Michael Reid and John Paul Lawson are both big, powerful athlete-dancers, and they combine all that power with clean, graceful lines, making their pirouettes and wheeling leaps the highlight of Axxiom Dance Collective’s show at the Vine on Sunday evening.
Igor Stravinsky dismissed his fellow composer Maurice Ravel as “the most perfect of Swiss clockmakers,” but pianist Gustavo Romero’s supple—sometimes ravishing—account of Ravel solo piano works in his recital easily dispelled that dismissive description.
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