PRESS - Articles and reviews for "Arabian Nights"

Creative Loafing, Charlotte, NC
April 7th, 2004 (excerpt)

By Perry Tannenbaum

" ...If you adore Cirque du Soleil-style aerobatics with contorted colleens suspended in mid-air on preternaturally strong silken fabrics, Poets waited just long enough before voyaging to this fantsatical Araby. They embarked with the alban elved dance company from Winston-Salem, whose founder, Karola Luttringhaus, was a thing of enchantment when she presented a suite of aerial choreographies at Poets 6/15 a couple of years ago.

Poets founder Till Schmitt-Rimpler was falling under the spell of Arabian Nights at about the same time as he was exposed to Luttringhaus's magic..... ...

...Nor was Luttringhaus always tethered to her silks. She conceived a gorgeous water dance solo for Lena Rose Polzonetti at a climactic point..., "Lena's Bath", that was all the more spectaculer for the sparsity of Schmitt-Rimpler's lighting design.

Then in an inspired flight of lunacy, Luttringhaus took us on a detour from Arabian to "Appalachian Nights" as costumer MyLoan Dinh engirdled the three Bagdad ladies in a profusion of petticoats and plunked our narrator in a pair of overalls....