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A voluptuous breakthrough: Rebecca Wender glows in Martha Clarke's phantasmagoria, Belle Epoque.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A voluptuous breakthrough: Rebecca Wender glows in Martha Clarke's phantasmagoria, Belle Epoque.(On Broadway)(Dance Review)

Article Excerpt
There were no titters or gasps the night I saw the latest Martha Clarke work, Belle Epoque, at Lincoln Center's small-scaled Mitzi Newhouse Theater.

But, says Rebecca Wender, it's not unusual for her to hear a reaction when she enters half-nude for an erotically-charged encounter with Mark Povinelli, the actor who plays Toulouse-Lautrec in this can-can fantasia. The show, with text by Charles L. Mee (who also wrote Clarke's best-known work, Vienna: Lusthaus) and music-hall songs of the period, is a kind of Lautrec poster come to life--cabaret performances interspersed with episodes from the artist's absinthe-fueled debauches. As the Belly Dancer, Wender is both entertainer and private fantasy, a shameless temptress and a kind of sexual meditation.

It's not just the nudity, and its proximity to the audience in...

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