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TREADERS IN THE SNOW

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20030910
Author:Tobias, Tobi

TREADERS IN THE SNOW Seraphita Closed

Pallid Mysticism, With Ties to the East, at the Fringe

Seraphita takes its title and theme from a philosophical novel by Honore de Balzac operating in his Swedenborgian mode. The mystical tale concerns a young man and woman, each in love with an androgynous angelic figure who reveals to them the spiritual path mere gendered humans might aspire to, and is then transfigured into an ineffable creature. The Treaders, a female trio of New York-based dancer-choreographers born and initially trained in Japan, respond to their subject with techniques drawn from ...

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