Fringe mermaid - New York Notebook - 'Trapped' by Ksenia Vidyaykina - Dance Review

Dance Magazine, Nov, 2003 by Wendy Perron

[NY] She writhed through a sinuous dance worthy of Salome and stripped down to skimpy hits of chiffon. Then she peeled from her leg a long skinlike patch, leaving tracks of blood. This was the opening scene in Ksenia Vidyaykina's solo performance work Trapped, which also included a mermaid act in a built-up dress that exuded white fluid flora the breasts and a dead fish from the belly.

And as a black widow sprouting rubber antennae, she kissed a guy sitting in the front row, then drooled fake blood. One of the few dance entries in the huge and sprawling New York International Fringe Festival in August, Trapped revealed Vidyaykina as a fascinating girl/woman with sensuous, spiraling arms and sad, fevered, trapped eyes.