LoveRaker- at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre
A sheer triumph ballet: Sheley sheer, whose impeccable form has been a feature of this current season of Bat Dor Dance Company, achieves a personal triumph in Domy Reiter Soffer's "LoveRaker".
The work tells of the brief gaudy hour and subsequent downfall of a girl who rakes relationships and is incapable of sustaining them, is a splendid vehicle for the particular style and articulate interpretative abilities of Miss sheer.
The work is finely integratedone, cyclic in construction, tragic comic in its impact and encompassing a pertinent comment on the games people play. The opening statement contrasts the disdainful Miss Sheer with a figure who crawls onto the stage on her back (Jeanna Gailor) an ominous note?
Then the girls dance together scorning the advances of two boys (Robin Lyon –Yakov Slivkin). The boys assert themselves and soon a flirtatious game of changing partners ensues. A fifth figure (Jay Augen) enters, arrogant, challenging, fateful representing the destructive flaw in her character. The girl finally lose all and is left alone to start again. The work is most effective and dramatic giving an opportunity to the dancer to express in movement a very valid subject in an interesting way.
Raeford Daniel-Rand Daily
