Borrowed Light
The Decade's Best Dance
The Village Voice, December 22, 2009, editor: Deborah Jowitt, 2010-12-07 14:03:19"I can only recall what dance experiences have delighted, amused, stimulated, or moved me most strongly—the ones that have lodged, still resonating, in my memory. Among these is Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen..."
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Smouldering and lustrous pearl
The Dominion Post, March 13, 2008, editor: Jennifer Shennan (in English), 2008-08-22 14:39:54”…a totally uncompromising and profoundly moving theatre piece in which dancers, musicians and designers share a remarkable achievement --- [the work] becomes an allegory of any human's journey – how to live a true, good life.”
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Carnal, bruised, sect symbols
The Australian, Mar 3, 2008, editor: Rita Clarke (in English), 2008-08-22 14:38:52”Supreme Artistry”
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Soul Shakers
Village Voice, Nov 21-27, 2007, editor: Deborah Jowitt (in English), 2008-08-22 14:35:56"Full-bodied dancing from Finland that seems wrenched from the soul and utterly without artifice."
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Brooklyn convocation of Shakers (and Movers)
The New York Times, Nov 9, 2007, editor: Claudia La Rocco (in English), 2008-08-22 14:34:19“The work, built on Shaker hymns and dances, felt entirely of another time --- Certainly the simple, beautiful music of the Shakers - - had much to do with this illusion. --- But credit must go to Mr. Saarinen, who - - has forged a wonderfully earthy movement language, full of lurching, rhythmically stamping processionals, arched backs, outflung arms and shoulders that look as if they could bear up under a grater burden than Atlas’s.”
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