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Of the three works on the program, Ms. Kleiman only enjoyed Geometry of Quiet, the middle piece on the program, which she describes in fond words. I found this piece to be pretty, but innocuous, and certainly the fluffiest concoction on the program. Unfortunately, fluffy seems to describe Ms. Kleiman’s aesthetic all too well.
Similarly, Ms. Kleiman hates Dave Douglas’s score to Rapture to Leon James for not being what she wants it to be and characterizes it as “ultramodern.” I guess Ms. Kleiman hasn’t heard much of the jazz created over the last 50 years, or she’d have realized how charming and accessible Mr. Douglas’s music was. In the performance I saw, the dancers were having a blast, barely able to restrain themselves from laughing, they were clearly having so much fun in this piece. Ms. Kleiman saw only affectless seriousness.
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