Anjelica Scannura won both awards for After the Fall, a dance performance she created and performed which dealt with the repression of women in societies that bar them from basic civil liberties. Scannura’s body becomes the movement, transgressing the boundaries of flamenco that is at her training roots.
“In a review early in Scannura’s career, I once called the dancer/choreographer ‘a wild child of dance’. This description still holds true,” says national dance critic, Paula Citron. “In performance, Scannura is passionate and compelling. She rivets the eye with her consummate charisma, and as a result, seems to dance rings around her fellows.”