What would the story of Alice in Wonderland look like if it was reimagined by a group of women? In international dance collective Nefer Global Movement’s version, “Remember”—which they presented during their debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on August 3, 2023—the classic tale keeps its signature color, whimsy, and imagination, but uses the caterpillar’s frustratingly existential question, “Who are you?” to explore themes of individual identity and collective growth.
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In the Wake of Yes
The title of Catherine Tharin’s latest production, “In the Wake of Yes,” is a reference to “Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy,” an inner monologue on womanhood and sexuality, from James Joyce’s Ulysses. Tharin matches the tone of this work as she picks up on an exuberant string of “yeses” from that text. Her witty series of dances explores romance and its complications. At the center of the show is a film by Lois Robertson that lifts the dancers out of the tiny East Village stage and transports them (and us) to scenes of contemporary New York City. Tharin, who danced with the...
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Through its newly opened program, “Other Dances,” Dutch National Ballet kicks off the summer with a slate of lighthearted fare that varies in precise approach but altogether evokes an effervescent mood.
PlusRequiem for Humanity
Taking the historian’s long view, the message within “Last and First Men,” that “the whole duration of humanity, its evolution, and many successive species, is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmos,” is, to me, ultimately a comfort.
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