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Wycichowska's new premiere is not a ballet performance in its traditional meaning. The division between the stage and the audience does not exist. The action takes place in an imposing space on five large platforms that may change at any moment, if someone should so wish, into banquet tables, a catwalk, a uniform plane of agreement and disagreement. The dancers (solo, in duets, trios and quartets) 'achieve' the area of play and embody the characteristics of its sins. They concede space to other dancers and sins, touch the spectators, entice the lazy, provoke with anger, startle with conceit, frighten with jealousy. Wycichowska draws movement from the body that perfectly characterizes our sinful longings. For there is nothing to hide the fact that the seven deadly sins at the Polish Dance Theatre are very attractive ideas and situations.
Michał Lenarciński "Dziennik Łódzki - Wiadomości Dnia", 02.02.2002. |