Since February, Caterina Rago and her dance company has received a space grant from chashama at a private rehearsal space in West Midtown.
They are reviving LABIR INTO, an 80-90 minute piece exploring the challenges with which we are faced in trying to arrive at the center of our own personal “labyrinths,” in trying to connect to our real beings/selves.
Oscillating between the dark and the ethereal/spiritual, Rago’s riveting use of space and levels delineates a powerful, mimetic labyrinth emotionally charged by each of her dancers’ laboring to manifest their own internal explorations. Through a contrast of broad sweeping gestures and controlled staccato movements—bobbing, swirling, weaving, coiling and uncoiling, boldly traveling across the space only to retreat again—interspersed with striking moments of introspective stillness, a visceral narrative of self and searching emerges.
