ABACUS Series Project, 2002-2003
Salvador Paradiso, Headlightjournal
“The performance was a three-part act: earthy, sensual, erotic…the Reverend Markus, wearing a thin black kimono, performed a hypnotic solo on the violin…the four female dancers, wearing see-through white robes…transgressed through a domino-like metamorphosis of facial expressions (that) made the audience ooh and aah and even chuckle.”
“In PAUSE, Ledoh led his local company, Salt Farm, in a mesmerizing work. Ledoh is already masterful in his imagery. Three jelly fish hover upstage, then metamorphose into a butoh chorus line that actually dances in unison...Ledoh’s tape of dripping water, which came at you from all sides, was as apt a sound source as I have encountered all season...There was a sense of structure here that kept the interest throughout the lengthy essay, all of it bathed in indigo hues. Ledoh also knows a thing or two about irony: much of butoh hovers between profound soul searching and absurdist posturing, and it is far too easy to slip off the precipice.”