Dance
Reflections on Seeing and Saying
By Leslie AllisonSwiss choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis’s From A to B via C orbits around a brief reconstruction of the 17th-century Diego Velazquez painting “Venus at her Mirror.”
ELEMENTS OF ERASURE
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s Rude World
By Cassie Peterson
I walk into what looks like a small black box theater with risers on either side of the floor and a cool black marley under foot. Thick, black curtains and dim lights line the entire room, creating an ominous sense of depth and mystery. Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have completely transformed the Chocolate Factory’s industrial, all-white space, rendering it a barely recognizable version of its former self.
THE BODY IN PIECES
Zoe | Juniper Examines Myths of Memory and Identity
By Madison Mainwaring
In BeginAgain, wizard art team Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey set the stage with a woman on the ground in a full-body cast. She isn’t alone for long. As soon as the dancing starts, she’s joined by a dizzying array of doubles and simulacrums. Two women appear in matching gray shifts, their hair in girlish plaits on top of their heads.
AMERICAN REALNESS: Move You/Move Me
New Works by Miguel Gutierrez, Jack Ferver, Keith Hennessy, and Luciana Achugar
By Jaime Shearn Coan
At American Realness, it’s not rare to experience a feeling of déjà vu: whether you are watching new versions of shows you have seen before, or new shows by artists you know well, or new shows in familiar theater spaces. Although I try to meet each show on its own terms, in this festival setting I have a hard time not comparing and revisiting.
SIX MONTHS LATER
Reflecting on Ferguson
By Ryan Kelly
In August, the musician Lauryn Hill dropped a raw, unedited version of her track “Black Rage” as a free download on SoundCloud. Hill wrote the song in 2012 and has been performing it at concerts ever since.
