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Extreme Art: Enrico Labayen 
By Mario Banzon, Arts/Culture Editor, The Phillippine Star
Dancer Enrico Labayen slowly uncurls beneath a white cloth and emerges bare-chested on the center of the stage. He is wearing a billowing skirt and nothing else. His movements are slow and deliberate. Labayen seems to be laboring under great pain with Puccini’s music. Eventually, however, the movements become abrupt and angry. One can see what made The Jordan Daily hail the choreographer a genius. The dance gives you various elements to ponder on: the pained choreography, Puccini, and allusions to Madame Butterfly (the title of the dance being Another Butterfly), and the fact that he is trying to depict the “women’s journey of love, hate, and subservience.” Labayen, who has a close shaved head and lean torso, is undeniably a man. Interestingly, he seems to consciously erase gender as a prerequisite for procuring roles. Time and time again, women dancers would perform dances that the choreographer primarily created for males, and vice-versa.
At the end of the performance, Labayen is left exhausted and literally naked, with only a few strips of white cloth covering his privates. It was, to put it succinctly, quite intense.
Exploding with emotion
Extreme is what best describes the works of Labayen. It’s such a cliché, with every other artist being described as such, but the adjective fits the dancer perfectly. Consider the artist’s choreography: Where there should be a nimble hop, there are feet falling heavily to the ground. Where there should be an arm gracefully arching in the air, there is a tightly clenched fist slamming into a bare torso. Each movement threatens to explode with emotion. Despite the experimentation with movement, Labayen’s works are firmly rooted in classical ballet. What he does, however, is infused with various influences from American modern jazz to Asian ethnic rituals and movements. “Rarely does a choreographer of contemporary dance manage gracefully to combine the technical precision and elegance of classical ballet with the freedom and innovation of modern art,” acclaims Dance Magazine, more or less describing a typical Enrico Labayen experience.
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