Oceanic Accomplishments in Choreography

摘要

At the 2010 australlan dance Awards, the coveted prize for outstanding achievement in choreography went to Meryl Tankard and Paul White for a collaborative solo work entitled The Oracle. Choreographically The Oracle, danced to Igor Stravinsky's seminal Rite of Spring, showed Tankard at her finest. Her vocabulary for White, the solo dancer, alternated between small and intricate movements of the hands and fingers, and even of the tongue, and movements that demanded that White fling himself through the air, while always maintaining absolute control of the whole body as it hurtled through space.