这个具有挑战性的现代芭蕾舞发现转瞬即逝之美的时刻就存在于内在冲突的浮躁和焦虑之中。它在舞蹈和音乐上的创新都会使人眼前一亮。编舞家Gareth Belling和作曲家Susan Hawkins以意想不到的手法表现了人类的状况,受到了一致的好评。
Matt Foley - 舞台转瞬即逝之美 Scorched Earth: “The dancers’ extended lines are accentuated by their black unitards, which also throw into relief against the smoking background, beautifully expressive use of the arms and upper body – a Belling trademark.” - Dance Australia bittersweet: “Gareth Belling’s Bittersweet, a lyrical work in grey to Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons, was a new addition to the company repertoire and his rapidly expanding oeuvre, showing continued growth as a choreographer.” - Dance Australia Say Something: “Belling has created a fluid continuum of movement, broadly covering the space and containing a gamut of barrel rolls, flying arabesques, leaps, and runs falling into and rising up from the floor. With its extreme physicality, Say Something should showcase graduating students to advantage.” Denise Richardson - Dance Australia From Darkness: “This is a departure in style for Belling, showing he has a good grasp of dramatic expression through movement that, here, leaps between that of anguished restraint and the violently explosive.” Denise Richardson - Dance Australia Transition Sequence: “Belling’s dance for four couples is set to Carl Vine’s Smith’s Alchemy, and opens with a striking image of them writhing and tangling as if being born. In the space of 20 minutes they will group and re-group... individuals and couples asserting themselves with clean, vivid, dynamic physicality.” Deborah Jones - The Australian Refraction: "How the human form can depict musical notes purely by movement is magic indeed, with each dancer responding to every nuance of the music within this cleverly derived setting built on sound,light and motion. Dramatic punctuation by the physical form (are these dancers real or elastic??) is so highly tuned that a deaf person could literally ‘hear’ the music from their moving portrayal." - Arts Hub. Transference: "Belling's duo (Transference)... conveys an offbeat sense of delicacy and innocence (Morehen's upended tutu encasing her like a budding flower), with some lovely and unusual lift lines." Olivia Stewart, The Courier Mail |