Events at Reed

Dance-literature major Katrina Bastian serves as choreographer for this performance by Ian Connelly, Jeanie Lee, Hannah Mackenzie-Margulies, Grace Poetzinger, MacKenzie Schuller, and Austin Weisgrau, with set design by Rennie Meyers. What is the body’s form and how does it come to be that way? Into which containers do we try to fit our selves—socially, spiritually, and physically? These questions inform this dance-literature thesis production—an exploration of the efficacy of rigorous movement, touch, and stillness in conjunction with the poetry of Carl Phillips and Kim Hyesoon. Highlighting each unique mover, each audience member, each poem’s lines, we exploit the grotesque as a means of finding and examining the engrained and yet elusive forms of our physical, sensational living. Tickets: $1–3; available at the door.