Review: Dancing That Unfolds Like a Prayer

The Northern Irish choreographer Oona Doherty looks at despair through an ethereal lens at the Irish Arts Center.

Review: Dancing That Unfolds Like A Prayer

The New York Times – by Gia Kourlas

The choreographer Oona Doherty grasps that in everybody — and in every body — there is a point of tension between hard and soft, tough and vulnerable, pleasure and pain. For all their posturing, her characters, anonymous working-class youth from Belfast, ache. And while her movement language creates an exacting physical entity, transcendence comes through an inner battle: fighting the hard to find the soft.

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