What Wendy's Watching: David Dorfman Portrays Hope & Tenderness

November 3, 2017

David Dorfman’s choreography asks, How can we all get along? In his new piece, Aroundtown at the BAM Harvey Theater, he shows how hostility within a community can turn to tenderness. He and his wife, Lisa Race, have a long embrace in the corner of the stage. It’s almost like saying that enduring love doesn’t always happen center stage.

In my 2013 “Choreography in Focus” with Dorfman, he says he likes his work to reflect “the mess of life.” And you will see some of that mess in this piece, captured with compassion, craft and humor.


Aroundtown
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which is part of the Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music, is at the BAM Harvey Theater from Nov. 8 to 11.