Lost Momentum
Momentum was founded by Delma Iles in 1982. She is well known through out the state of Florida, and has been awarded many different merits. She’s an M.F.A. recipient from New York University, in Dance. She came to Florida aspiring to change, or add to the growing world of arts here in Miami. Since then she has choreographed around 40 different works, all of which for some reason have been given some positive acclaim. Perhaps because I have not seen these other pieces, I am not so easily persuaded that this show was just a fluke. That this company may in fact be talented and all the merits were well deserved, and not awarded simply for merit’s sake. On December 3, Momentum performed a few different pieces from their own repertoire and a fairly new, bold piece that was exciting to watch. These together were presented as “Dances for the Holiday Spirit.” Unfortunatly, the piece I enjoyed most was choreographed by another artist, Irmah DelValle, not Delma Iles. Briefly, it is to be said that though Irmah DelValle is the Artistic Assistant, it may someday (hopefully sooner than later) be her bold ideas that sky-rocket this company to a new level in the dance community. The piece choreographed by Irmah DelValle was t
When all was said and done, the curtain came down, and the mysteriously full house was left to digest a multiplicity of poor choreography. Some not knowing that this had been the case, only knowing that they had bared witness to a display of theatrics unknown to them. Ironically, I wonder if this is the reason behind so well a funded company’s success. There was another piece worth mentioning, entitled “Quatre Regards Sur L’Enfant Jesus” (2000), not because it was exciting to watch, but because it was the sterotype of their work. This piece was choreographed by Delma Iles. It used dim blue lighting to cast a very different shadowy and cold atmosphere across the stage. This piece was accompanied by a pianist, Alan Ngim. It was exciting to see such a bold collaboration. But yet, there was something still missing. The dancers themselves were somehow pre-occupied with something, and this only added to diminishing the poor choreography. It did however have it’s moments. Upside down one moment to resolve to an amazing display of andedante pirouettes. The momentum (no pun intended) from these turns were used to fly across the stage landing in one another’s arms and quickly being thrown to the floor, recovering only to real
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