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| | Voice Of Dance - Insights - Features |
 | | That latter quality was noticeably absent earlier, in the contributions from Anderson’s San Francisco-based Company C Contemporary Ballet, a dutiful purveyor of tepid neoclassicism, and Oakland’s Facing East Dance and Music, an ambitious Chinese-American company, directed by Sue Li Jue. |
 | | In this piece, Sue Li Jue recalls the immigration hell that Chinese people endured in the past, which, to put it mildly, is not a theme that holds much potential for kinetic exploration. |
 | | The episodes of dance (performed by Sue Li Jue, Perry Jue, Frances Cachepero, Rae Chang and Frances Sedayo) look peripheral, rather than crucial to the enterprise and, in her limited movement scheme, Jue overuses martial arts imagery (slicing hands, extended legs). |
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