Post Mortem Movement Theatre's Ravens & Writing Desks takes viewers into the rabbit hole to find out...
Storytelling is the great heritage of the human race. Within that heritage, niche interests (such as horror) provide diversity -- or limit art, depending upon your point of view. However, the ways in which stories can be told within or beyond the restrictions of genre are universal. Within the pages of this horror-centric website, we’ve covered films, puppet shows, traditional and experimental theater performances, but we’d yet to tackle dance. Luckily, Angela Lopez, the
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principal writer / director of Post Mortem Movement Theatre, has given us an opportunity to remedy this deficiency by inviting us to her first major production, Ravens & Writing Desks. As with some of the other experimental territory we've explored, it is difficult to use a traditional approach in critiquing a performance that is so
Post Mortem Movement Theatre's Ravens & Writing Desks takes viewers into the rabbit hole to find out...
unique in nature. In the most basic sense, Ravens & Writing Desks is a multimedia production which uses interpretive dance, music, and puppetry to riff on the writings of Lewis Carroll. There is not exactly a straightforward narrative to the production; it is more of a meditation on Carroll’s writings -- principally Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass, and What Alice Found There, which depict abstractions of a complex world through the eyes of a child.
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