DANCE REVIEW | 'DRY FLOWER'
Cultural Clashes as Physical Haiku
NYTimes.com > Arts > Dance, November 8, 2004
Nibroll is another of the zany/serious experimental dance groups from Japan that arrive in New York occasionally to offer a critique of the Tokyo rat race.
....Rather than concentrate on direct evocations of a high-tech society with its high-speed commuter trains, Nibroll contrasts playful idyllic video images with tension-filled movement.
Like haiku, this approach gets its point across with images, live or filmed, that are remote from the idea actually being expressed. Keisuke Takahashi's animated films of masses of distilled animal shapes (gazelles and geese) fly rapidly across the screen repeatedly while four tantrum-prone women....
