Boston Dance Theater: Red Is A Feeling
Boston Dance Theater performs Red is a feeling—an evening of short dance works woven together by the color red that highlight themes of the human experience including love, longing, and the fight to live. Choreographer Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad presents a work inspired by her cancer diagnosis. Jessie Jeanne Stinnett’s Fifties is inspired by popular tunes of the decade. If As If by choreographer Itzik Galili is a duet in which the color red signifies a personal struggle with body, mind, space, time, memory, and history. Choreographer Marco Goecke’s take on Firebird is set to Stravinksy’s 1910 score and captivates the audience with a nuanced yet explosive journey of companionship.
This work aims to tell a story about a feeling – the feeling of red.
It is the liminal space between fighting for your life and surrendering to the unknown. This work plays with possible outcomes and pathways – it moves through time, memory, and reverie – objects are personified, and the protagonist shifts in both perspective and character. It purposely leaves space for you to meet it and wonder.
Choreography: Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad
Sound Arrangement and Score: by Rece Komorn
Music: Folke Rabe, James Markey, Spencer Zahn, Ibrahim Maalouf, Googoosh
Lighting Design + Realization: Holly Gettings
Costume Design: Roya Carreras
Costume Realization: Wesley Urbanczyk
Duration: 20 mins, 4 dancers