Witches, trials, & exhibitions fly around in Liz Lerman’s new evening-length, dance-theater piece, Wicked Bodies. The work wonders about the persistence across time and culture of old crones, evil stepmothers, and the use of the body as a source of fear by governments and institutions. Why is some knowledge celebrated, some criminalized, and some erased altogether? And who gets to document, describe, and save the remnants?
In the presence of magic both old and new, and a surprising collection of witches, audiences will make their way through a restless story and a smashing of worlds. The multidisciplinary piece is designed specifically for Weill Hall at the Green Music Center.
Made possible, in part, through a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission, a program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Witches, trials, & exhibitions fly around in Liz Lerman’s new evening-length, dance-theater piece, Wicked Bodies. The work wonders about the persistence across time and culture of old crones, evil stepmothers, and the use of the body as a source of fear by governments and institutions. Why is some knowledge celebrated, some criminalized, and some erased altogether? And who gets to document, describe, and save the remnants?
In the presence of magic both old and new, and a surprising collection of witches, audiences will make their way through a restless story and a smashing of worlds. The multidisciplinary piece is designed specifically for Weill Hall at the Green Music Center.
Made possible, in part, through a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission, a program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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