http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/arts/dance/review-rachid-ouramdane-crossing-the-line-festival.html 2016-10-14 23:41:48 Review: A Choreographer’s Head-Spinning Turns as Self-Revelation The French-Algerian dance-maker Rachid Ouramdane brings a more intimate work to New York in “Tordre (Wrought),” at the Crossing the Line Festival. === If I had to categorize the French-Algerian choreographer Rachid Ouramdane, I’d label him an expressionist minimalist. I can’t think of anyone else to whom that tag applies in dance, and Mr. Ouramdane reminds me of nobody else. His vocabulary is small, but it suggests that he has urgent points to make that go beyond dance. He’s original, peculiar, limited, irksome, haunting. In “ The subject of “Tordre (Wrought),” the duet he is presenting this week at Baryshnikov Arts Center, is female self-revelation, and the production has a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning and end are deliberately trite, with showbiz music; but the middle is separate, extended, odd. The start is a joke, a series of entrances in which Between these sections, most of what occurs are extended solos. Ms. Hanauer, tall and lissome, has a left arm that is visibly artificial from the elbow down but deployed as an organic part of her motion. What’s memorable about her solos is the expressive way she angles her body between knee and neck: She leans, arches, tilts. Ms. Although Ms. Juodkaite’s circuits of turns are certainly virtuosic, both these women present obviously restricted ranges of movement. Above their heads hang two wrought-metal constructions designed by Sylvain Giraudeau, sometimes slowly rotating. Stéphane Graillot’s overhead lighting casts the dancers’ shadows on the floor; you could say at times that we’re seeing the latest update of the famous “ But these “Tordre” solos are on the cusp of the soporific. I enjoy the frank calm of both these women — Ms. Juodkaite even talks as she spins — until it tips, repeatedly, into self-indulgence. Ms. Hanauer dances to an incoherent, rambling rendition of “