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Martha says:
John Jasperse is a sophisticated choreographer, who has drawn remarkable dancers to him for decades. In “Hinterland,” his new work at for Lumberyard in Hudson, NY, Jasperse has moved into new territory. He is working with remarkable new dance collaborators, including Mina Nishimura, Antonio Ramos, Eleanor Hullihan, and DeAngelo Blanchard. The performers alone would make this piece worth seeing.
In a challenging world, Jasperse is using dance to explore ideas about how individuals pursue personal agency, and how they make choices by undoing the systems of order – often in radical ways. The question of what is oppressive and what is freeing is not just a question for this form, but for culture writ large. “Hinterland” struggles with these issues, partly through Jasperse’s own struggle (his “embodiment of self as a middle-aged white guy,”) and he describes the process of this work as opening that Pandora’s box. Something so tantalizing only comes with a high quotient of risk. Opens Friday, August 17 at 8 pm.
Cover: DeAngelo Blanchard and John Jasperse in “Hinterland”. Photo © Miguel Anaya.
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