Braving the New World

Fri.-Sat., May 7-8, 8 p.m., $25, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, rebeccadavisdance.com.


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Published: May 5, 2010

Johanna Austin

dance

Rebecca Davis has carved a special niche for herself by staging dance works inspired by literary classics, famous people and world history — she's created pieces about Van Gogh, Darfur, the Enron scandal and Helen Keller — and all bear her special technique for blending the real with the imagined. Now comes Braving the New World, which uses the work of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury as springboards for commenting on our current state of privacy (or lack thereof) and growing government control. This new ballet presents one man's struggle to be an individual in a society that makes everyone conform to a predetermined destiny. Will he succeed? There's only one way to find out.

Fri.-Sat., May 7-8, 8 p.m., $25, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, rebeccadavisdance.com.