Dores André in Pita’s Salome, San Francisco Ballet, March 2017. © Erik Tomasson. André’s red chiffon
Dores André in Pita’s Salome, San Francisco Ballet, March 2017. © Erik Tomasson. André’s red chiffon dress barely shrouds her body as she whips the men – representing Wilde’s seven veils – into a primal frenzy. The tempo builds slowly (at times too slowly), and stillness says as much as momentum here. André gives herself completely to it, rolling in the growing piles of confetti, slithering and crawling over the men, and smearing her dress with dirt from their bodies. When Salome crashes from her drug-induced high, André’s eyes reveal a distant dawning that she has been used as a weapon of destruction. No matter, apparently; she shakes it off and gets back into the limo. -- source link
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