There wouldn't be many balletic boxing bouts in the dance repetoire, but Black and Blue delivers a sock to the snout with its exciting athleticism.
It plays with the metaphor that the world has been reduced to a single boxing ring, with super powers fighting it out in a choreographic combination of lithe freshness and wiry inventive agility.
--Eastman Wal for Hobart Mercury
29 Nov 1994
Soft Bruising
Nina Veretennikova and Paul Mercurio
Photo: David B. Simmons


Black and Blue was choreographed by Louis Falco, and first performed by the Sydney Dance Company in 1984.