"An erotic exercise turns on the Turks
BY APOLLINAIRE SCHERR
Special to Newsday
December 13, 2006
When the same artist appears at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave festival for two decades, it's probably time to admit that "next" is a misnomer. But 66-year-old German choreographer Pina Bausch is so consummate a showman, it hardly matters.
Her latest export, "Nefés" (which means "breath" in Turkish), slips so gracefully from scene to titillating scene - three hours' worth - that you don't even want to notice the chill it arouses. Or I don't, anyway. "You can see it like this or like that," Bausch once said of her work. Proceeding in "Nefés" as a documentarian of desire, she leaves us to interpret the evidence and feel however we like about it."
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