Metro 28 de APRIL de 2006
Metro
London, United Kingdom
28/APRIL/2006
By Keith Watson
Dance Review - Companhia de Dan?a Deborah Colker: Knot
Brazil?s Deborah Colker is not a Woman to shirk a challenge. Past works have seen her build a Ferris wheel and an entire house on the Barbican stage, so a production involving a forest of 120 ropes and a transparent glass box is hardly likely to faze her. And with Knot, she once again proves herself a mistress of the props, tying her dancers up in tricky variations that in lesser hands could look clunky and cumbersome. Yet Colker mines a brutal elegance from images of captivity.
The driving force of Knot is the nature of human desire, a condition that can be both liberating and debilitating. So Colcker?s choice of ropes as a symbol is a potent one, a nifty shorthand for the ties that bind us to our rebellious libidos. The point is underscored by Berna Ceppas?s score full of sensual Latin rhythms and by costumes that helpfully highlight genital hot ? zones in blazing red.
But for all that, you still have to remind yourself that this is a show about desire, because there is precious little of it on stage.
The dancers, each and every one a brilliant acrobat, duly wriggle, writhe and clump themselves into knots of human flesh, but the spark of attraction that could light their fire remains frustratingly elusive. Knot, for all its sporadically mesmerizing movement and arresting imagery, is tied so tightly to exploring the idea of desire that ? oops it forgets to be sexy.
