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Fringe review: Heather Eli & Dance Co.

HEATHER ELI & DANCE CO. (Heather Eli & Company). At Al Green Theatre. July 8 at 5:15 pm, July 10 at 8:30 pm, July 11 at 10:45 pm, July 12 at 3:30 pm, July 14 at 6:15 pm, July 16 at 5:15 pm. See listing. Rating: NNN

This work opens with the cast repeatedly falling backwards to the ground, a move I see again and again in contemporary dance these days.

In these opening moments of Brooklyn-based choreographer Heather Elis work, we get to see some impressive backbends, but the lights go down on the actual crumple. Its a small disruption that is repeated at the very end of the show. Details like this always grab my attention and this dance is full of them. Other striking moments: acrobatic-tinged group dances in which the performers use each others bodies as launch pads a lovely athletic ballroom dance for the two men in the company a childs play section complete with homemade fort and painted boxes as headwear.

As an exploration of the sentiment and emotion attached to the idea of home, this work is over-long but evocative.

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