DETOURS: COMMON GROUND II (1999)
Choreography: Lily Cai and Deborah Vaughan
Music: Gang Situ & Gary Schwantes
Lighting Design: Matthew Antaky
Dance Collaborator: Dimensions Dance Theater

Detours: Common Ground II is a collaboration between Dimensions Dance Theater and the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, based on the critically acclaimed Common Ground (1994). African dancers and Chinese dancers unite once again with the hope of isolating a new

dance language. Detours: Common Ground II is a celebration of this union and the new perspectives which follow.

PRESS QUOTES

• “Live drummers appeared and the Cai dancers began their signature ribbon dance. When the Dimensions dancers burst forth with their energetic and grounded West African movement, the cultural lesson we were meant to absorb came through: the language of dance is universal, there is beauty and a life-force in all dance forms, and color need not be watered down for us to peacefully co-exist with each other.”
~ Sima Belmar, www.dancemagazine.com

• “All the women move with muscular urgency, sometime holding hands in a tight cluster as if to find their way through a fog. Arms and torsos stretch skyward; at intervals the women spring high in a form that is as individual as each dancer’s body.”
~ Diane D. Urbani, Oakland Tribune