graveyards and gardens
iPhoto caption: Photo by Robert Torres.
REVIEW: Two hybrid dance pieces close out this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival
During the festival’s closing weekend, I saw two works that live side by side in my memory even as they differed in style and intention. Both Je ne vais pas inonder la mer (I Will Not Flood the Ocean) and Graveyards and Gardens explored memory, loss, and the body’s way of carrying history — one did so with devastating intimacy, the other with cerebral play.
iPhoto caption: Photo of 'the body symphonic' by Giuseppe Follachio.
Three genre-blurring SummerWorks productions meditate on memory and loss
During this August's iteration of the curated SummerWorks Performance Festival, three productions rethink the line between dance piece and concert.