Vietnam, flamenco spice dance melting pot

February 26, 2007
BY HEDY WEISS Dance Critic

There was a great deal of cultural cross-pollination on the Chicago dance front this weekend.

Arriving first, at the Dance Center of Columbia College, was the Together Higher Dance Troupe of Hanoi, Vietnam. The company blends aspects of contemporary Western modern dance with a strong Eastern design sensibility. It also plays with a great many lighting tricks that serve as cues and are a reminder that most of the dancers onstage are either deaf or hearing-impaired. (This fact would have been all but undetectable were it not mentioned in the program.)

DANCE REVIEW

BAILAORAS ISRAELIES DEL CAFE DE CHINITAS
AT THE DANCE CENTER OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE

TOGETHER HIGHER DANCE TROUPE
AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART THEATRE
The sole offering by Together Higher was "Stories of Us," an 80-minute work by the company's artistic director, Le Vu Long, who spent years with the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet and also worked in France before starting this troupe.

(leer +) [vía chicago sun times]

tags: flamenco, baile, cante, flamenca