Living Dances

I attended "An Evening of Contemporary Kudelka" dance recital by the Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie at the Fleck Theatre down in Harbourfront. You can get a more insightful review from Paula Citron. This is what I got out of it.

The first piece, a premiere, called Beautiful Movie is about a man singing to a doll. But it's no child's play (ha ha). Music can be found here.

The second piece, see #1, is about a woman with Tourette syndrome. Violin solo.

The third piece, Soudain L'hiver Dernier, is about 2 hobos. Music.

The last piece, In Paradisum, is about a socialist paradise where men and women dress the same.

In all seriousness, although the 3rd and 4th piece were easier to understand, all 4 pieces were rather mysterious to an unsophisticated attendee like myself. Instead of the pages and pages of biographies profiling the dancers, composers, and so on, it would be nice to have a detailed artist statement or literary critique that details the dance vocabulary and themes of the dance pieces. In video game parlance, I'd like a walkthrough please. This is not the first time I've been rather bemused by dance recitals.