Review: Faraway, So Close by Ishida Dance Company

by David Glen Robinson
Published on August 16, 2021

This company is so devoted to conveying realities that their attack with intent, purpose, and love takes the audience to new places in their own minds and hearts.

  Most of the elements of Faraway, So Close were delayed in showing one way or another by the pandemic lockdown suffered by most of the world. ISHIDA Dance has been centered in Austin only since 2019, and thus remains a very new dance company in our community. In our time of breakthrough viral infections, ISHIDA Dance’s show at the Dell Fine Arts Center at St. Andrew’s in far west Austin was one of breakthrough artistic …

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