Lester Tome

Lester Tome is a dance historian and critic teaching at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
A splendid romp with dancers sprinting diagonals across the stage, arms pumping, Esplanade, in all its gleeful abandon and racing-hearts-of-first-love ebullience, manages to make the simplest of movements – running, skipping, walking, jumping – virtuosic modern dance, seminal in its declaration that yes, all this too can be dance.
Paul Taylor Dance Company: Lisa Viola jumping over (left to right) Richard Chen See, Silvia Nevjinsky, Takehiro Ueyama, Kristi Egtvedt, James Samson, and Amy Young. Photo by Lois Greenfield.

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