The Weekly Wound Up is a quick look at what's going on here, there, and everywhere.
As lighting designer Jane Cox noted on Facebook: "It makes me so happy to see all these opening night photos of live theater happening all over the country and the world. Theater is a maddening life partner, but to see the amount of human energy and creativity expressed as theater staggers back to life is quite beautiful."
So here a few things, actually from the world of dance–live and on film–starting with a little Jabberwocky;
Philip Glass has composed a score for Alice, a dance piece based on the 1865 Lewis Carroll novel, "Alice In Wonderland." Alice premieres this month in Mulhouse and Strasbourg (France), with choreography, dramaturgy by Amir Hosseinpour, Jonathan Lunn, stage design/costumes by Anne Marie Legenstein, lighting by Fabrice Kebour, video design and animations of paintings by David Haneke, paintings by Robert Israel.
Four Quartets by choreographer Pam Tanowitz had its world premiere in the Fisher Theatre at Bard College in 2018 and has now made it's New York City debut at BAM. Four Quartets has text by T.S. Eliot, music by Kaija Saariaho, images by Brice Marden, and lighting by Clifton Taylor. At the time of its premiere, Live Design ran a gallery of images with Taylor's descriptions: Clifton Taylor Designs World Premiere Of Four Quartets and he shared the light plot: Clifton Taylor's Light Plot For Four Quartets.
At the Joyce Theatre, through Sunday, February 20, Sankofa Danzafro celebrates powerful Afro-Colombian and Afro-contemporary dance with live music and singing in Accommodating Lie, a full-length work by Rafael Palacios that seeks to dismantle stereotypes and beliefs about the Black body and what it means to be of African descent. The company is based in Colombia, the country with the second largest Afro-descent population found in Latin America.
And a short documentary, Darcet Bussell: A Ballerina's Life, a look inside the dance work with British prima ballerina. An exceptional dancer and some glimpses at ballet design in the performance clips.