George Céspedes has created a style of social dance with a geometric and mathematical root which constitutes an attitude concerning the Cuban circumstance and a suggestive exploration of the homeland ideal.
“At moments, Céspedes reminds you of the young Twyla Tharp in the fanatical, joyous precision with which he moves his dancers through a frenzy of kicking legs, shimmying shoulders, clicking fingers and jiving arms. Brilliant.”
“The dancers move in almost fanatical perfection: bodies as if in a shaker, playing with and against the earth’s gravity, quivering with passion.”
“Hardly earth-shattering stuff, you might think, yet these passages are performed in such perfect synch, and with such sexy intensity, that you can’t tear your eyes away.”