Your posting about last night’s performance was absolutely right on, as I see it. I agree that the mind wanders and there are times when it’s not clear why a dance is still going on when the mind returns. But sometimes it’s good to go deep, very deep into an idea. “N.N.N.N” for example. I understood the motif immediately and have performed it many times in James’s Moving Works” and other ballets and in Contact class. But seeing it a second time tonight (with tall Cyril injured and ill, evidently) it was actually more enjoyable for me. This was my third viewing, actually, since I saw it first in 2005. Anyway, the men seemed enlivened and their performance was more subtle and precise, perhaps in order to care for/make up for poor Cyril. And “Quintett,” well, I could watch that every day until I die. Cyril looked great, Fabrice was amazing, daring. Normally there is a trap door that keeps sucking dancers down in and spits them back out again. I wondered how they would accomplish this trick without a giant trap door/coffin but they did just fine with a strong guy (Fabrice) catching (mainly) Jone San Martin.

Mainly I just really appreciated your right-on writing and aesthetic. Except I don’t understand “cold”–no matter.