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Preview of a review: Trey McIntyre Project
Published: 11/10/2010 10:12 AM
Last Modified: 11/10/2010 10:12 AM

The full review of the Tuesday performance of the Trey McIntyre Project will run in Thursday's Tulsa World. However, for those considering going to the performance Wednesday night, here's a brief excerpt.

From its mysterious beginning, with the dancers draped in rough cloaks and roiling about, around and practically through, each other to the series of hyperkinetic solos set to a driving percussion score, “Arrantza” was continually fascinating.

Perhaps the most impressive section was the trio of men dancing to the recording of a long monologue of a man’s remembrances of sailors and fishermen (the piece’s title in the Basque word for “fishing”). McIntyre’s choreography here made no effort to illustrate the story being told, but worked more like visual embellishments, embodying all the tangled emotions that any memory of something that seems lost can evoke.

The other two pieces on the program — “Pork Songs” and “Wild Sweet Love” — both date from 2007, when McIntyre was still accepting commissions from other companies. These two works have a few things in common — eclectic scores made primarily of pop songs, a solo figure set in a sort of opposition to the rest of the company, an angular sense of musicality, so that the choreography punctuated and emphasized the music rather than flowed along on top of it, and a sly and surreal sense of humor.

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