Soft Center

Commission for White Oak Dance Project
New York City
Premiere May 28, 1999

Soft Center rejects the sentimental cliches that often describe male/female relationships in dance. But imbedded in the abstract electronic music score is a burst of lush, romantic music which belies the detached objectivity of the two dancers

Choreography:

Lucy guerin

Cast:

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Raquel Aedo

Collaborators:

Lighting: David Finn
Costumes: Liz Prince
Music Compilation: Various Artists; Process; Pole; Fonn; Hindemith

Responses:

Complex and demanding, it's the purest of pure dance…No romance here; just the steps, ma'am, and they're gripping.'

Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice
August 1999, New York City

'Lucy Guerin had the most inventive vocabulary…knots and coils of dancing intricately put together and very well performed.'

Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times
August 1999, New York City