Unión Tanguera Nuit Blanche

By Carla Escoda, 20 November 2013

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Reviewed at UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley on 17 November 2013

Nuit Blanche (Claudia Codega, Esteban Moreno, Jorge Crudo, Rolan Van Löor)

Unión Tanguera

Lucila Cionci, Dancer

Claudia Codega, Dancer

Rodrigo Corbata, Dancer

Claudia Jakobsen, Dancer

Jorge Crudo, Dancer

Esteban Moreno, Dancer

Rolan Van Löor, Dancer

Camilo Ferrero, Bandoneon

Marta Roca, Violin

Ignacio Varchausky, Double Bass

Eifman Ballet in a strangely psychological Pygmalion Effect

Jaime Robles, 31st May

Eifman has said he wants move dance back into theater and to use movement to explore the psychological. Both of these the company accomplishes.

***11

Xenos: The generous sorrow of Akram Khan

Jaime Robles, 2nd March

He turns and turns, elliptically and with the speed of a skater on ice. Sheer muscle defies gravity and the friction of feet on terra firma.

*****

No lonely hearts in MMDG’s Pepperland

Jaime Robles, 28th September

What makes this piece entirely Mark Morris is, even more than the dancing, the music.

*****

Wang Ramirez take Borderline to California

Jaime Robles, 24th February

A cube hangs suspended at an angle and Ramirez, harnessed to a line above the stage, floats above it, fulfilling the promise of dance and the human desire to escape gravity – to fly in angelic weightlessness.

*****

Joffrey on tour

Jaime Robles, 17th November

Eclectic and contemporary, The Joffrey Ballet reimagines human and kinetic beauty.

*****

Warm voice, cold feelings: Winterreise in Berkeley

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 10th November

Ian Bostridge and Wenwen Du deliver Schubert's song cycle with great musicianship, but Bostridge lacks the presence that makes live performance a special treat.

***11

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.

Unión Tanguera transports its sexy Nuit Blanche to Berkeley