ALBANY - When the curtain went up on Nacre's performance of Charles Weidman's "Christmas Oratorio" Saturday afternoon at The Egg, projections of stained-glass windows formed a backdrop for the dancers. The visual was apt, not only because of the religious nature of the 1961 work, but also because the "Oratorio," set to music by J.S. Bach, is a bit like an animated stained-glass window itself--a lovely arrangement of brightly colored figures whose heartfelt dancing at times seemed almost to radiate light.
Choreographed by Weidman soon after his emergence from a depression brought on by his breakup with his creative partner, Doris Humphrey, the "Oratorio" merges …
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