For Levels and Lines, Kristina Isabelle puts her dancers on stilts.
by Jena Cutie
In this modern ballet, performed as part of the Pivot Arts fest program "Gravity," Kristina Isabelle retools the proportions of her dancers by literally sending them out on a limb, putting them onto stilts. A kind of next-generation pointe shoe, stilts perform a similar function, boosting dancers to different levels in space and elongating the lines of their legs.…[ Read more ]