"Other Life" Reviewed by Washington Post

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The Post writes:

To look on the bright side, one of the evening's three offerings was an elegant and winningly mysterious stylistic melange. "Other Life," a 15-minute movie by Austin Elston, Emily Gallagher and Kelly Mayfield, told a wistful love story through balletic modern dance and stylish black-and-white footage.

Choreographed by Mayfield (founder and artistic director of Contradiction Dance), the film interwove an intense, closely embracing pas de deux sequence -- Mayfield and Boris Willis, in resonant interpretations of two lovers -- with sequences evoking an elegant boudoir and (shades of "Anna Karenina" here) a 19th-century train station. Terence Nicholson's melancholy original score, with its minimalist arpeggios and yearning string sounds, gave way now and then to suspenseful footsteps and ticking clocks. With enigmatic silent-movie-style captions (along the lines of "Doubt returns!") and resonant imagery -- billowing train-station steam, faces captured in an ornate hand mirror, fleeting glimpses of subsidiary characters portrayed by other dancers -- the piece was stirring and poignantly open-ended.

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See "Other Life" November 7, 8, 9
at
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