Gat’s Rite of Spring is based in the casino rueda style of salsa, with Assaf and Gat switching off among three women, everybody barefoot and dressed in black, the action centered on a red Oriental carpet. It’s an original conceit, but Stravinsky’s music has more nuance than Gat’s repetitive movement. At the end, after the other four have left, the “Chosen One” binds up her hair and stretches out on the carpet, an offering. At the American Dance Festival in Durham last month, Gat, it’s reported, stripped this Chosen One to the waist. At the Pillow, she was sacrificed fully clothed.
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