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Dance Umbrella 2004.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dance Umbrella 2004.(Critical Essay)

Article Excerpt
DANCE UMBRELLA 2004 VARIOUS VENUES, LONDON, ENGLAND OCTOBER 5-NOVEMBER 27, 2004

It was a good, not great, year for Britain's biggest and best-known contemporary dance festival. This year's 26th edition reached beyond North America and Europe to cast a spotlight on fresh talent from Asia and Africa.

Young Japanese choreographer Ikuyo Kuroda, artistic director of Batik, showed off her provocative, peekaboo style. The female sextet Side B combines the look of early Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (girls in black boots and dresses) with a creepy-cruel fury. Skirts are lifted of dropped; a red curtain, partially raised, is pulled down with the teeth. Long, swinging hair renders the women, who danced like a pack of sly schoolgirl Bacchae,...

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