ABCDE Arts&Style sunday, october 17, 2010 ROBIN GIVHAN
All grown up Miley Cyrus is becoming an adult, and parents are going to have to get used to it. E11
BLOGS AND CHATS
washingtonpost.com/style Music Bob Dylan can be seen in the act of creating his persona in “The Witmark Demos.” E4 On Love Candice Fisher and Gordon Dexter didn’t let cystic fibrosis stop their marriage. E10
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FOLGER LIBRARY
Henry VIII The much-married king’s lasting legacy is on view in an exhibit at Folger Shakespeare Library. E5
FLAVIO COLKER
by Sarah Kaufman Exhibit A in evidence of Brazil’s continuing leap to global power: Giant bugs in jellybean colors
juggling corncobs under the big top at National Harbor, where Cirque du Soleil’s “Ovo” is en- sconced for another week. ¶“Ovo” is Portuguese for “egg,” and the whole show in its Carnival- channeling, samba-shaken splendor is the work of Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker, a blue-eyed blonde with a toothy smile and awaif’s physique. She is the first woman in Cirque du Soleil’s 25-year history to craft an entire production from the ground up, from creation and di- rection to choreography. ¶ Exhibit B: A completely different work by Colker will be seen Oct. 28-30 at the Kennedy Center, where her modern-dance company, Companhia de Danca Deb-
orah Colker, is returning to the Eisenhower Theater after a seven-year absence. ¶“A great coin- cidence, no?” asks Colker, 49, answering herself with a husky laugh. She’s speaking by phone from the home she shares in Rio de Janeiro with her three dogs. ¶Well, I don’t think it’s a coin- cidence. I think it’s the natural outcome of Colker’s unusual crossover appeal and open-to-
anything confidence. Enthrall both a circus crowd and the high-art elite, within a few miles of each other? Por que não? ¶ There are other directors of modern-dance companies who, like
Colker, routinely make use of gym apparatus, acrobatics and radical physicality, and who bring these to the proscenium stage. (Elizabeth Streb and her Extreme Action Company, based in Brooklyn, comes to mind.) And there are other choreographers
colker continued on E3
ON THE WALL: Deborah Colker’s “Mix” is a
two-part work that her troupe will perform Oct. 28-30 at the Kennedy
Center. “Mix” focuses on passion but “not love,” Colker emphasizes. “When we
talk of passion, I think it’s more violent, more uncontrolled, more intense.”
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OFF THE WALL
Deborah Colker, a choreographer so daredevilish and passionate she was asked to join the circus
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