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April 02, 2006
New York Premiere
The premiere on March the 28th was packed with critics and connaisseurs of the dance world, among them many New York Times journalists. We also heard legends, one of them beeing that Mikhail Baryshnikov was attending. This audience has already seen everything, and we were warned of their arrogance. Tero just sighted - Oh, no, help! but he did not need help once standing in the middle of the stage in Mikki Kunttu´s mysterious backlight, bathing infog, facing his destiny as the sacrified one.
I think we did it right from the beginning. After Westward ho! the audience thought this is something strange and unusual. During the sensual Wavelenghts they decided they liked it, and at the end of Hunt they just caught their breath and went silent. After Tero´s last leap toward the skies (or death) it was so quiet I could hear my own heart beat. Then the emotional storm of the audience broke the death silence. The reviews of the next days repeated the Canadian pattern, often with the invitation, please come back soon! We certainly will.
New York Times about Hunt:
The whole thing was quite extraordinary, a powerful match for the music. After two days, they also ranked the performance among the three MUST´s of NY at the moment.
Read the reviews from www.terosaarinen.com/blog
Posted by marita at April 2, 2006 02:13 AM