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From: The Village Voice | Date: April 20, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The Seattle-based ensemble 33 Fainting Spells, which showed Maria the Storm Cloud at Dance Theater Workshop, has its finger on the cultural zeitgeist as few American dance theater groups do. Composed of two unrelated, thirtyish women with the same last name (Dayna Hanson and Caelen Hanson, accompanied on this outing by a third, Peggy Piacenza, the company strikes the same chord of absurd, affectionate disaffection that we hear on late-night television or in the work of experimental performers like Elevator Repair Service.

Maria, about an hour long broken by an Intermission, is a series of ...

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