inDANCE's "Quicksand"- Toronto, Canada

inDANCE presents Quicksand

March 16, 2011,

Fleck Dance Theatre,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada



"In his rambunctiously provocative Quicksand, a new work by Hari Krishnan, founder-director of Toronto company inDANCE, the very notion of cultural distinction is jettisoned as a multiracial cast of 10 bare-chested men --mash the Navarasa, or nine archetypal moods popular in Indian dance, into a techno-hip, strutting declaration of freedom from the constraints of tradition and conventional sexuality. Visual designer Boyd Bonitzke projects a video quicksand onto the stage. Ghostly images of a traditional Indian dancer morph into clouds and rippling water. Gestural motifs redolent of traditional Indian forms decorate a movement vocabulary that owes its alternating heft and buoyancy as much to Western contemporary dance as to lessons Krishnan learned from his guru. Self-expression is the thematic link between Quicksand's cascade of bold, surging ensembles and more contemplative solos. Krishnan the maverick gadfly is aggressively iconoclastic."

Review of Quicksand by Michael Crabb, dance critic, The Toronto Star, March 18, 2011



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