Fascinated with the cult film Return to Oz, he recites the plot in a tumble of words and explosive vocal effects, then re-enacts it at full speed three times until he is wrung out with exhaustion. At first, the story is comical; by the end, you want him to rest.
Within a restricted range of movement that grows tedious and then ingrained over the course of an hour, Ferver recounts being a bullied gay kid whose troubled imagination encompassed both Disneyfied woodland creatures and deadly predators. The forest Marc Swanson has created for him to navigate is a long mirror facing the audience within a grove of swinging, black-and-mirror "tree trunks." As Swanson explains, the beautifully lit set functions as forest, nightclub, and dance studio. The audience can't escape seeing itself reflected as witnesses, voyeurs, and even potential persecutors as Ferver encounters himself.
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- Vertigo at Jacob’s Pillow
In 2005, graffiti artist Banksy stenciled the Palestinian side of the concrete separation barrier between Israel and Gaza with the dark silhouette of a little girl lofted upward by a bouquet of balloons.
- A Glimpse Beyond: Cemetery Gaits
Two newcomers enter the paradisiacal garden that will be their final resting place.
- Sequence 8: Out of the Box
When acrobat Colin Davis appears at the beginning of Sequence 8 in the role of a suit-and-tie-wearing radio announcer, a kind of Ira-without-Glasses, he is introducing acrobatics with a meta-narrative.
- Lar Lubovitch dance company at the Citi Shubert Theatre
Originally a visual artist, choreographer Lar Lubovitch "paints the music in space" so that the stage acts as a vibrant canvas and his ensemble often coheres in a single robust or mesmerizing gesture.
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Young powerhouse dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham brings his company to Boston in its area debut.
- Preview: Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion at the ICA
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- The Nutcracker: Building a better mousetrap?
"Without The Nutcracker , there'd be no ballet in America as we know it."
- The Floordlords celebrate 30 years
B-boys — b-girls had scant presence on this program — have gone commercial, but today's freestyle breaking technique builds on moves cut three decades ago (although a grainy Floordlords video indicates that the current generation has discarded stirrup pants for profanity-laced t-shirts).
- Jane Comfort and Sharon Eyal at Jacob's Pillow
The dramaturgy behind Jane Comfort's gimlet-eyed pageant in Beauty, on delicious display at Jacob's Pillow Doris Duke Theatre this past week, is spot-on.
- A postmodern dance lineage sings
Brown's newest work, Les Yeux et l'âme , is a suite of dances from Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Pygmalion , which Brown directed in Europe last year.
- A whirlwind year of dance
Here's a look at highlights from my year of dance viewing.
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