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Press Reviews of Chroma:

"Christine Luby’s Chroma is the most palatable work in the evening’s programme and takes its inspiration from colour therapy. Six dancers enact a series of chaotic relationships and intense emotional states and then allow these to be altered by colour. With added accessories such as colour therapy glasses and items of clothing, moods are changed as bright yellow conveys happiness, black anger and drudgery, white a Zen-like euphoria and purple sensuality. At the end the dancers all clamour round a bright pink spot, like moths round a light-bulb, suggesting the discovery of enlightenment. What works well in Chroma is a fluid music score which moves along the dance, the confident development of choreographic ideas and the performers’ welcome commitment."

Josephine Leask - Wed 19 Jan 05

 

"Easily the most watchable piece of the evening was SnapDragonDance’s Chroma, based on the effects of colour on the psyche. For all its thematic simplicity and literal interpretation, Chroma stayed true to its aims and used each dancer’s skills wisely. Under a dim, blue light, dancers were isolated and inwardly focused, their gazes blank, their movements meditative and self-referential. A transition to green brought with it interaction and relationships, the six dancers dividing into three couples who struggled, snuggled, and broke apart. Orange light and sunglasses with coloured lenses ushered in playful competition; wearing black shirts, dancers were reduced to kneeling and performing repetitive tasks. Choreographer Christine Luby’s distinctive, lyrical blend of yoga and capoeira was most freely expressed in the final section, where the dancers luxuriated in unrestricted physicality."

Elizabeth Schwyzer - Wed 19 Jan 05