Her thirst for truth and beauty in dance was vast: She was always searching for it — through her own body and through her dancers’ bodies. “Aileen used the body to understand life in a way that just kind of says hello to the world and celebrates all of what we can be,” the dancer and choreographer Arthur Aviles said in a phone interview. Ms. Hendrickson, who went on to dance extensively in Ms. Passloff’s works, said she had been insecure when she arrived at Bard’s campus, in the Hudson Valley. Ms. Passloff changed that. She recalled a performance at Bard in which Ms. Passloff presented her dance “Paseo,” in which six dancers wear the bata de cola — “the Spanish skirt that drags behind kind of like a wedding gown,” Ms. Hendrickson said.

Source: New York Times November 12, 2020 21:11 UTC