Fruitlands
"Thrilling…Ideas about God dwelling in nature, freedom and discipline, health in mind and body, communal living, and rigor nurtured her creative process…The beginning of Fruitlands sets the tone of austerity and lushness, wildness and control, attended by the possibility of rapture. As they rush here and there, Koo's terrific costumes turn them into a veritable storm of black clouds…[The dancers] perform with powerful conviction... Through them, images of nature's vagaries, liberty, spiritual vision, hard labor, and sisterhood come to life within the white brick confines of the narrow loft…Close to them as we are, we feel their efforts and their ardor when they explode into running and leaping. When they roll on the ground and lash their bodies extravagantly around, their loose hair fans out and sticks on their increasingly wet faces... The dance as I saw it, without prior reading, enthralled me. I sensed rich thinking underneath it at every moment." —Deborah Jowitt, dancebeat.org
