Boandanz Action: Voyeur

Sat., April 12, 8 p.m., $15, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.

by Janet Anderson

dance

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For last fall's Live Arts Festival, Cuban-born choreographer Marianela Boan created Voyeur, a provocative duet about marriage danced by two of the city's best, Scott McPheeters and Bethany Formica.

This time around, Boan's intriguing work gets more breathing room at the Annenberg Center's Harold Prince Theatre. Onstage, the Voyeur couple lives and performs in a plastic child's playhouse. The cramped space both brings them together and sends them flying out windows to get away from it all. Meanwhile, outside this claustrophobic environment, audience members videotape the dancers' movement up close; the tape is instantly projected behind the tumbling, sliding and confusion in the house.

Accompanied by electro-acoustic musician Jason Carr's compositions, Voyeur is part of the Annenberg's "By Local: Home-Grown Philadelphia Talent" series. While not a Philadelphia native, Boan — who teaches at Temple and contributes so much to the local experimental dance community — seems very much at home here.

Sat., April 12, 8 p.m., $15, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.