http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/dance/review-ny-quadrille-festival-rosanne-spradlin-x.html 2016-10-08 00:48:14 Review: This Dance Is a Jolt at the Joyce Theater RoseAnne Spradlin’s “X,” along with works by Loni Landon, Tere O’Connor and Pam Tanowitz, are part of the “NY Quadrille” festival. === There was a long moment during the recent premiere of Over the years, the Joyce Theater has acquired a reputation for playing it safe. But the two-week What could have been extreme but still ordinary at a theater like the Kitchen recovered a charge of provocation at the Joyce. How far would Ms. Spradlin go? Much of “X” could be described as a boot camp for experimental dancers — athletes of the avant-garde — with wrestling and rifle drills. These were Spartan operations without the offsetting extravagance of Ms. Spradlin’s Loni Landon Ms. Landon’s troupe of well-trained, youthful performers attack her elastic phrases and science-fiction-thriller rhythms (freezing and fast-forwarding) with touching eagerness. Yet a distance remained between the cool effects and the emotions they were meant to evoke. Everything was pushed a little too hard. For a more mature exploration of the tension between social selves and inner lives, there was Such flare-ups of beauty are what is most transcendental about Mr. O’Connor’s “Transcendental Daughter.” This trio is a highly sophisticated meditation on trio form; periodically one of the three seems to fade out of the collective dream into a private one. Mr. O’Connor’s enigmas require a certain state of mind. A work like Ms. Spradlin’s “X” is excellent preparation. Neither choreographer’s aesthetic is the Joyce’s main fare and probably shouldn’t be. But the stretching does everyone good.