Annually in January Dance Magazine publishes its big “25 To Watch” issue. This year I contributed a brief piece on dance/theater artist Irina Tsirkurishvili, choreographer for the Arlington-based Synetic Theater:
“Petite and powerful, onstage Irina Tsikurishvili is a siren. Intense, sensuous, and sultry, as a dancer and choreographer she eschews conventional modern and ballet for her wholly dramatic, frequently explosive brand of dance theater. 'I didn’t want to stay my whole career in the second line of swans, she declares. 'I wanted to tell stories.' Instead she has astonished the Washington, D.C., region with her silent heroines—a fragile Ophelia, a cunning Lady Macbeth, a sizzling Carmen, and an ethereal Titania.”
If you haven't yet seen this company, you really must. Find out more here. Coming up next, a new version of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and the theater company's signature silent adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello."
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