Take Root performances continue at Green Space with work by Tina Croll + Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach on MAY 10 & 11 at 8PM.

Tina Croll + Company

Ancient Springs is inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and poet Kathleen Raine’s Defending Ancient Springs. Comprised of vignettes— “short stories”— this piece examines abstract and non-narrative methods of storytelling through movement and sound, a little gavotte, a twisted convulsive solo, a stately waltz on some town square. She Rides a Tiger is inspired by the Sanskrit saying” Sanghe Shakti Kalau Yuge” (In this Dark Age Strength is in Unity). Full of intricate spatial patterns and rhythmic contrasts, the work combines the choreographer’s ongoing interest in Eastern European/Asian folkdance forms. “She Rides a Tiger” refers to the Hindu goddess Durga, "The Invincible," the warrior goddess with many arms, each carrying a weapon.

Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach

What are our stories and how did they come to be? When The Sky Separated From The Earth asks questions around fantasy and reality, deception and truth, and duplicity and multiplicity. When The Sky is a playground, gym, town plaza, church, bedroom, stage, and home. It is loud and out-of-bounds; it is against the rules; it is not exactly true, but it isn’t exactly false, either. And it asks, “How can we trust - in ourselves, in others, and in our world?” It works to reveal our humanity – full of faults, but always with the capacity to listen to our own unique truths and the truths of those around us with compassion, goodwill, and heart.