ARC Dance Takes Over Seattle Rep

Published July 16, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

What the five disparate pieces seem to have in common is a desire to present the dancers in the company with discrete physical challenges, from the intense "Wood, Metal, and Air," which incorporates stomping and clapping, providing physical, rhythmic element to the score by Stravinsky, to "Torches," a creative approach to staging a smattering of Cole Porter torch songs as reinterpreted by k.d. lang and Annie Lennox.

But the most visually arresting we saw, at least in their rehearsal form, were decidedly Hutchinson's "Images" and Chong's "No Regrets." Hutchinson's approach is arrestingly clinical, in the best possible way. This isn't a particularly narrative ballet, rather it's an arresting and challenging exploration of movement itself, as it shifts between tableaux. Chong's approach, on the other hand, is more energized and emotional.

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