Walking the Line
Walking the Line
1980
The People
Choreographer: Karen Jamieson
Composer: Henry Kucharzyk
Reviews
“There’s one clear moral to Rimmer’s work. If you love dance you cannot afford to miss it. Dressed in black, accented with red accessories and trimmings, the four women and two men stand in line face front to execute a complex adagio of hand clapping. This quickly gives way to a densely textured, increasingly energetic pattern of dances. Relationships within the group are implied rather than stated. There is hostility, even violence, but also moments of tenderness.
The rigid mechanical self discipline of the opening gives way to frenzy. An original score, principally for strings, by Henry Kucharzyk, establishes the perfect aural backdrop for this meticulously constructed dance.”
- Michael Crabb
“Dancemakers in spring colors”
The Globe and Mail, April 2, 1982
“Karen Rimmer’s Walking the Line, a stunning theatre piece with a fine new score by Henry Kucharzyk. A compelling study of entrapment in social roles, habit and one’s past, Rimmer’s ballet features Six Characters in Search of an Exit who move from the tense order of a percussive line-dance to the chaos of disjointed, obsessive individual enchaînments.”
- Penelope Doob
Ballet News, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 1982
Banner photo credit: Karen Jamieson Dance Archives. Karen Jamieson and Henry Kucharzyk circa ?
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