Sofa, so good. Kate Wallich at On the Boards April 2–5. COURTESY OF KATE WALLICH
This week at On the Boards, choreographer Kate Wallich and her company, The YC, will live-Instagram themselves while dancing onstage in between rows of fake potted plants. Later in April, choreographer Alice Gosti’s five-hour durational performance piece involving dance, choral music, and the haunting vocals of composer Hanna Benn will premiere at Saint Mark’s Cathedral. The subject matter for the performances ranges from post-internet-generation relationships to political resistance, topics so complex and so intrinsically verbal that approaching them through dance seems a pretty lofty goal
Not lofty at all, says How to become a partisan director/choreographer Alice Gosti…