PhotoWaiting in line to enter a theater has something in common with waiting in line at a border. The tables represent walls, as at borders, and the dancers slip through the gaps between them, gaps that sometimes slam shut. It’s a world of scarcity, all right, yet what’s truly meager, and often maudlin, is the movement vocabulary, which buckles without building. There are hints of some kind of drama: warmongering, mass death, the emergence of a cult or community. The piece is about emigration and requires audience members to pass through a convincingly nervous-making simulation of border control.

Source: New York Times May 15, 2016 15:52 UTC