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Sorry, but I was not as thrilled with the overall execution of this piece. Yes, the three-part staging/architicture was great, the lights were really good, the dancers were truly amazing, and it was a good idea. But it was hard to get any sort of emotional affect from any of the parts (the quartet came closest to absorbing my interest). There was no binding emotion or narrative thread. So the three parts were actually separate dance pieces, not even echoing each other. Yes, in a city everyone is separate, but even in real life group dynamics create mimicking or echoing, and in dance, this would have been nice to see even a little attempt at making the pieces cohere other than by music (which was a little screeching after a while). So technically was good, but felt empty and bleak without narrative or emotion, like an insane asylum for dancer puppets. (The overpriced not-very-good art in the gallery area seemed to echo the underlying pain. Why so much pain? Most people get that modern breaks from traditional, but we’re in the postmodern era, aren’t we? Isn’t there a new way to tell the old story by now, that creates meaning out of chaos rather than simply tell us the chaos is there?)