Dance Review: "La Bayadere" RhetOracle Dance Company
Submitted by DancePlug on 20 September 2011 - 4:42pmRhetOracle Dance Company performed their modernized version of La Bayadere, on September 9th, 10th, and 11th at the Irvine Valley College PAC.
"[...] This Bayadère gives us a compelling story cribbed from the original but scored for a musical collage (mostly Blues--John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Nina Simone, The Black Keys and others) and danced using an affecting hybrid of jazz and theater. Sam, a former manager of The Temple Bar, the GoGo dancer, Nikki, and Gemma-Belle (the current owner’s daughter) are the players in Hodges’ disaster-bound love triangle [...]"
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