“Diversión of Angels”, (con música de Norman Dello Joio, y vestuario de Graham, compuesto en 1948), es descrito en el programa con palabras de la propia autora, como “tres aspectos del amor: la pareja en blanco representa el amor adulto en perfecto balance; la de rojo, amor erótico, y la de amarillo, amor adolescente”. Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsche y David Zurak; Jennifer DePalo y Tadej Brdnik, y Atsuko Tonohata con Lloyd Knight, respectivamente, dieron realce a la pieza con sus magníficas interpretaciones, especialmente Tonohata y Knight, exuberantes y encantadores como verdaderos quinceañeros.
http://www.danzarevista.com/pages/members/nota.php?ed=70&sec=critica&art=06
The Washington Post (26,October,2007)
Katherine Crockett as the Pioneering Woman, Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Jacqueline Bulnes, Atsuko Tonohata, and Jacquelyn Elder as the Followers, David Zurak, and Blakeley White-McGuire as the Husbandman and the Bride.http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp?provider_id=25&ptp_photo_id=xt-mt-25-title_10281818
Cleveland (6,November,2007)
Martha Graham Dance Company shines in Cleveland shows
"Diversion of Angels" (1948) casts three couples in variously colored attire as lovers at different points of maturity. Norman Dello Joio's yearning, buoyant music motivates this delicious game of amorous intrigue, with a corps of five dancers providing ebullient counterpoint.
Graham's angular gestures, upswung arms and tricky balances found the cast in fluid form. Katherine Crockett's sense of line was the perfect match for David Zurak's elegance as the seasoned Couple in White. Blakeley White-McGuire and Tadej Brdnik were the nimble, frisky Couple in Red, while the youthful Couple in Yellow had acrobatic champions in Atsuko Tonohata and Lloyd Knight.
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1194341901241540.xml&coll=2
Tucson Weekly (11,October,2007)
Modern Classics
The Martha Graham Dance Company leaves its troubles behind and finally comes to Tucson
The Martha Graham Dance Company leaves its troubles behind and finally comes to Tucson
By Margaret Regan
..."Diversion of Angels," by contrast, has been "in the company repertory since the day it was made." It premiered in 1948, and old films demonstrate that the piece evolved, with Graham changing such elements as costumes and lighting as the years went on.
..."Diversion of Angels," by contrast, has been "in the company repertory since the day it was made." It premiered in 1948, and old films demonstrate that the piece evolved, with Graham changing such elements as costumes and lighting as the years went on.
"The trick is to hold on to the meaning," Eilber says. "She always did."
Danced by a cast of 11, the work is "all about love. Martha said it was about three women or about one woman at different stages of life." Dancer Katherine Crockett, in white, represents mature, spiritual love; Jennifer DePalo, in red, embodies passion and eroticism; and Atsuko Tonohata, in yellow, is youthful flirtation...
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Arts/Content?oid=oid:101734
Seeing Things (17,september,2007)
Graham Company Dances in Shadow of Martha's Image
...I also liked the work of the young Atsuko Tonohata, as effervescent as spring in "Diversion of Angels" and the veteran Miki Orihara, who seems to understand what's going on in a dance with every cell in her delicate body...
http://www.artsjournal.com/tobias/archives/2007/09/graham_company.shtml
The New York Observer (18,september,2007)
Can Martha Graham Be Kept Alive?
Almost as endangered is the rhapsodic Diversion of Angels, a pure-dance work that has inspired audiences since its creation almost 60 years ago...Only the young Atsuko Tonohata, in yellow, projected the simple, happy ardor that brings Diversion to life...
http://www.observer.com/2007/can-martha-graham-be-kept-alive
The New York Sun (14,september,2007)
A ‘Chronicle' of Graham's Talent Dance
BY JOEL LOBENTHAL September 14, 2007 Graham didn't dance in "Diversion," and it is markedly different from the works she both created and in which she also starred at the time. It is light-hearted, for one thing, and it has no narrative, not even a fractured one. Here, Graham also used more balletic vocabulary in her works than she had originally; at one point in "Diversion" she even seems to reference Petipa's Rose Adagio. As she did for many of her works, Graham also designed the costumes for "Diversion of Angels," and here she color-coded her dancers. The Woman in Yellow is sunny, the Woman in Red is passionate and provocative, while the Woman in White absorbs all the emotional hues. Episodes are separate or concurrent, so that the schematic doesn't become over-determined. Norman Dello Joio's commissioned score is alternately restless, then pauses for reflection.
On Tuesday, Katherine Crockett and Blakeley White-McGuire were rock steady in their prolonged poses and balances, in which each resonates differently: White (Ms. Crockett) is settled and integrated, while Red (Ms. White-McGuire) smolders in stillness. As Yellow, Atsuko Tonohata understood the way her leaps were meant to have both balletic shape and Graham timing.
www.nysun.com/article/62633
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