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The electric company: when Koresh Dance Company performs, audiences leap to their feet.

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Ronen Koresh leans forward as nine company dancers run through his Backtracks, the explosive piece that often cuds their shows. Intensely intimate couplings ballistic kicks, feral pounces and feisty rolling hips raise the energy level in his Philadelphia rehearsal studio into the red zone. Though the piece premiered two years ago, the hard-driving Koresh is still playing with it. The Israeli-born choreographer fingers his shoulder-blade-length mane of curly brown ha r re ling it into a bun and their freeing it again as he considers new possibilities. "I was thinking of having them throw rose petals into the audience at the bow," he says, as a way of connecting with the audience. Not that he needs to worry about audience response The company's home season programs regularly sell out to an enthusiastic following, sometimes garnering standing ovations, and reactions on the road are similarly fervent.

Backtracks will be on the program when the Koresh Dance Company travels to Cleveland this month to perform at Cain Park in a 2,500-seat outdoor amphitheater that's often...

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