Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m.
Esch Hurvis Studios in the Warch Campus Center
“The Delicate Hour” is distilled, lean, contemporary dance, brushed only here and there with choice theatrical details tossed like a throw line from the ordinary world. Enacted by Shanahan and three others, “Hour” offers an often hypnotic parade of gestures, short-lived partnerships and tableaus teasing the consciousness with suggestion and reverie. Whole stretches — some of its most powerful moments, in fact — are in slow motion, so that fairly simply constructs are given time to build to enormous punch.
