Celebrated modern dance innovator Martha Graham wrote in her 1991 autobiography Blood Memory that a dancer’s “body says what words cannot” and that “movement never lies.”
Powerful wordless expression and truth abound in Deos Contemporary Ballet’s Collide Series 25, a triumphant two-hour mixed repertoire performance in two acts currently in production at St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids.
Drawing on the legacy of Martha Graham’s genius as well as other important ballet and musical history, this fine company of dancers show their commitment to the past, present, and future of dance with innovative choreography infused with powerful emotion, beauty, musicality, and narrative…