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Victor Quijada: this director/choreographer/ dancer mixes hip hop with concert done, with electrifying effects.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JAN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Victor Quijada: this director/choreographer/ dancer mixes hip hop with concert done, with electrifying effects.(On the Rise)

Article Excerpt
A marvel of speed, precision, and invention, Victor Quijada is riveting as a performer. His movements coil tight and strong in the solar plexus, leaving the upper back and limbs free. As artistic director/choreographer of Montreal's Rubberbandance Group, he mixes hip hop with contemporary and classical dance in a speedy, uber-physical hybrid that blends easy elegance with male-female confrontations that threaten to become pileups. When he's finished, the audience is whooping.

Quijada's movement is exhilarating and his charisma is magnetic. Juxtaposing the raw freedom of popping with concert dance's technique and narrative, Quijada's pieces have unexpected moments of tenderness and humor. But not everything about Rubberbandance Group works perfectly, yet. Quijada is a man with conflicting street-to-ballet impulses and he is still the best interpreter of his own ideas,...

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