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''RICHARD DANIELS/'THIS NIGHT'''
In ''Wee Hours,'' a series of delicately drawn works set to nine well-chosen nocturnes (no Chopin), Richard Daniels's dancers filter onto the stage like light coming through a window, accompanied by the pianist Nurit Tilles. In one piece, the dancers move like sleepwalkers, half-awake in Paderewski's fitful night; in another, Dusan Týnek shows the pique of an unsleepy girl who dances to music by Manuel de Falla that ends on a petulant note—echoed by a spirited stamp of the foot. Most haunting is Regina Larkin's performance, set to Poulenc's Nocturne No. 4 in C Minor, which floats between dream and dread. Larkin moves with a gymnast's precision and a dancer's mastery of suspense, extending and stopping every limb just so, with angular yet smooth grace. Karen Young's costumes are colored in a shadowy palette drawn from James Abbott McNeill Whistler's ''Nocturne'' paintings. Daniels, who has lived with AIDS for twenty years, says the program's subject reflects ''that moment, in a dark night, of waking up, or passing through—arriving at the dawn.'' The evening also includes two solos, ''Cinder'' and ''Bonus Round,'' performed by Daniels. (Connelly Theatre, 220 E. 4th St. 212-206-1515. April 2 at 7, April 4-5 at 8, and April 6 at 5.)
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