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WORLD STAGE.(Israel's foremost dance company: Batsheva)(Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder)(Dance review)

The New Yorker

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Israel is a young country, in an emergency. One might therefore expect from its dance companies a certain straightforwardness, a willingness to put on shows about what life is like and how we should feel about it. But in the three Israeli troupes that appeared at the Lincoln Center Festival last month--Batsheva Dance Company, Emanuel Gat Dance, and Yasmeen Godder and the Bloody Bench Players--what we saw was the opposite. Collage form, reflexiveness (representations about representation), attacks on the fourth wall, invasions of the audience: name a post-Brechtian challenge to traditional theatre, and that's what these people brought us. Such strategies have not vanished ...

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