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Polaris Dance Press Room
"There's a brand-new name to watch in Portland's panalapy of dance. It's Polaris, a modern dance company [whose work] explores the complexity of human nature and relationships. [Robert Guitronâs choreography is] wrought with the fever of grief and sleepless nights, revealing a depth of emotion and theatricality. This is full-out dancing and stagecraft...
Polaris has the potential to inspire." - Anastasia E. Alexander, Oregonian
"[Guitronâs] movement is very supple and sensual, then it explodes into something very physical, sharp movement, bordering violence, then all of a sudden it floats again, feeling the struggle and the balance, with gravity, with momentum, with inertia. [He] is as interested in exposing the uglier aspects of the emotional landscape as he is in the exquisite beauty of the dancing body." -Catherine Thomas, Oregonian
"Contemporary dance company Polaris Dance Theatre makes its debut under the tutelage of Artistic Director Robert Guitron. Guitron is a longtime Choreographer who has worked with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Bodyvox and others." -Tina Satter, Portland Tribune
“Guitron’s style is firmly rooted in the technique of Lester Horton, a modern dance pioneer whose big, whole-body movement and quick-shift spirals and rises inflect nearly every scene in “Blue.” Like Horton, Guitron is a theatrical choreographer, and his musical-theater background is immediately in evidence in the opening scene of “Blue,” which features no dance at all but sets the emotional stage with spotlighted vignettes of dancers caught in intense stop-action tableaux of grief, rapture and brewing trouble.
“Guitron knows how to stretch a moment, and he lets the grace notes linger... “
“ ‘Blue’ knows exactly what it is: an ode to the history of the blues, with no less than 20 songs cutting a wide swath from raw Mississippi swamp to sweaty juke-joint to citified big-band to electric, using the rolling rumble of a train as a narrative thread through time and place.”
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