Who says modern dance languages are stuck in their creators' bodies? At the New Victory early in February, Buglisi/Foreman Dance, a company of ex-Martha Graham soloists, brought a classic language back to-the mainstream. From the opening image - Terese Capucilli as Sarah Bernhardt peeking out from the curtain in Jacqulyn Buglisi's Against All Odds - the overwrought Graham worldview acquired some irony. Here was a grande dame nobly, yet mischievously, emoting to Rachmaninoff. Buglisi and Donlin Foreman, husband and wife, graft ironic delight onto Graham's contractions, releases, back falls, and wheeling arabesques. Foreman's Mean 0le World (one of two premieres) even inserted the heady mix of a live blues band into the Graham sensibility. The wonder of the season was the beautiful dancers this technique still produces; the triumph was two master choreographers making that beauty new again.
