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Muscle Memory’s Trio of Dances Explores Movement and the Absurd
It seems that for Muscle Memory Dance Theater (M2DT) it’s not important for the audience to understand everything they do, but to know or sense an underlying architecture behind the movements. These pieces don’t require explanation: they intend to be experienced. The dances I saw tonight don’t so much illustrate things we know as things we have never seen. They make complex mimes of objects and situations that have not existed until this moment when a dancer’s body carved them out on the stage in front of us.
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Visiting Conductor, Violinist James Ehnes Turn In First-Rate Performances of Second-Rate Work
Top-notch performances of a largely second-rate repertoire characterized Thursday night’s performance by the Dallas Symphony at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Guest conductor Claus Peter Flor opened the evening with the one really fine composition on the program, Dvorak’s tone poem The Wood Dove. Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, a showpiece patched together out of typical Scottish tunes, served mainly as a virtuoso vehicle for violin soloist James Ehnes, who managed to introduce both energy and emotion into this tuneful but cliché-ridden work.