New York Times: ‘Just Speaking From My Body’
"The Devil Ties My Tongue" by Amy Seiwert performed for the SKETCH Series, 2013. Photo by David DeSilva. Courtesy of Amy Seiwert's Imagery
New York Times: ‘Just Speaking From My Body’
By Siobhan Burke
24 December 2019
Every so often a great dancer transcends her own brilliance, somehow expanding its outer limit. Last week at City Center, Linda Celeste Sims, a member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for 24 years, did just that in a rapturous performance of Ailey’s 1971 “Cry,” a 16-minute solo dedicated “to all black women everywhere — especially our mothers.”
This season Ms. Sims, 43, danced the work for the first time as a mother — she gave birth to her first child, Ellington, in May — and something shifted.
“I went deep, I went really deep,” she said in a telephone interview on Thursday, reflecting on her performance the night before. “It almost felt like I wasn’t performing for you, I was actually just speaking from my body.”
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