Results tagged “commetoujourshereistand”

Since founding in 1991, Big Dance Theater has been ebulliently blurring the traditional aesthetic boundaries between theater and dance, jumbling the two forms into often delightful yet esoteric performances. Their latest confection continues the tradition, but don't expect the term "theater" to include "narrative," at least not in any conventional sense. Called Comme Toujours Here I Stand, the hour-long piece is inspired by Agnès Varda's 1961 French New Wave film, Cléo From 5 to 7, which portrays, in real time, the life of a marginally talented pop singer waiting for the potentially dire results of a medical examination.