tEEth isn’t a dance company—it’s a dream machine. And
its dreams aren’t always pretty. Its last show, Normal and
Happy, was bizarre and hallucinatory, with some dancers encrusted
in what looked like necrotizing putty. They didn’t move like
people so much as aliens or animals or cogs in a frantic machine. tEEth
is bringing its new show, Grub, up from Portland this weekend
and promises us cackling, slapping, hand-held video, and duets both
awkward and violent. (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, 217-9888. 8
pm, $18. Feb 12–14.)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....