THE DANCE: FAIRBANK AND BISSELL
By Jack Anderson
Published: January 28, 1986 The New York Times
COMPLEX are the uses of simplicity. That was demonstrated by Holly Fairbank and Bill Bissell, who shared a program Sunday night at Just Above Midtown. Most of their pieces utilized only a few steps. Yet in the best of them the movements were obviously chosen with care.
''The Interpreter,'' a solo for Miss Fairbank, consisted of starts and stops and worried pacings from side to side to the recorded sound of a voice reciting in Tibetan. Just as the accompaniment was a foreign language, so Miss Fairbank's wariness suggested that she was venturing into unfamiliar territory.
In Miss Fairbank's ''Amazing Powers of Memory,'' Karen Booth and the choreographer moved slowly across the wide performing area. At one point, they sat down, each in her own corner, and tilted mirrors to capture reflections. Whatever they did, they always appeared to be somewhere long ago and far away.
