Classical Voice of North Carolina
24.06.2008

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The program's center was a work of surpassing strangeness by Turkish choreographer Aydin Teker (in conjunction with several of her dancers). aKabi was as compelling as Umwelt was repelling, and paradoxically, as inexplicable as the Marin work was obvious. However, aKabi's power depended less on its movements or manipulations of space, than on the bizarre and enormous shoes worn by the dancers. Made by Istanbul master shoemaker Ahmet Inceel, their uppers were fine black kidskin, but their soles were fantastically thick, resulting in perilous platforms as tall as the distance between ankle and knee. One was in a swivet of apprehension throughout, lest the dancers should fall - a feeling enhanced by the deliberate turning of ankles and twisting of knees. Torquing and contorting, rolling, twisting; waving and flapping their strange extensions; rising, balancing and falling - these five dancers produced the evening's indelible images.

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