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As the work evolves and takes shape,
aurice Sendak, the legendary
Sendak lobbies to include the experi-
author and illustrator of
ence of the Jews who were transported
beloved children's books and
other dark tales, is admittedly obsessed to the camps and, once there, were
divided into those who could work
with the Holocaust.
and those who were gassed.
"It's a loyalty to the dead," he con-
Pilobolus' performers are remarkably
fides in the extraordinary documen-
gifted dancers, but they are also sensi-
tary Last Dance, "especially to all the
tive, attuned artists. They find ways to
children who would have been my age
articulate separation, loneliness,
now and would have had lives of their
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despair or fear with a simple, eloquent
own.
gesture that has truth and emotion.
That devotion almost capsized
The last 10 minutes of Last Dance
Sendak's 1998-1999 collaboration
are given over to Pilobolus performing
with New York's renowned Pilobolus
scenes from A Selection, as the finished
Dance Theatre.
work
is eventually titled.
More than a year of meetings,
Once
again, Bank provides images
debates, improvisations, rehearsals and
performances are captured in filmmak- from the Holocaust, blending the real
with the metaphorical to remind
er Mirra Bank's riveting Last Dance,
which will be screened
3 p.m. Sunday, April
27, in Commerce
Township.
While Sendak tells
stories, Pilobolus rejects
straightforward.narra-
tive in favor of the
intuitive, unspoken
emotional power of
movement and music.
They operate in dif-
ferent spheres, but with
so much talent in the
room, something won-
derful and unpre-
dictable is bound to
emerge.
Sendak is only inter-
ested in "a story that is
a little hard to take. It
has to draw blood."
"Last Dance"• A Sendak-Pilobolus collaboration.
So he proposes a
work inspired by the
children of
younger audiences of the bitter basis
Theresienstadt, the concentration
for the work.
camp that the Nazis passed off as a
A Selection is somber, and it is based
model to visitors. The Pilobolus per-
- formers, who have no firsthand experi- on grievous events, but it is unmistak-
ably life affirming.
ence with the Holocaust, are under-
It's impossible to watch a work of
standably reluctant to enact a scenario
art being created, and then performed
that would feel false, like play-acting.
When Sendak plays the Jewish com- with such beauty, grace and tender-
ness, without embracing it as a blow
poser Hans Krasa's Brundibar, which
to the forces of darkness.
was performed by the young children
One of the Jewish challenges of the
of the camp, the troupe finds inspira-
21st
century is to continue educating
tion.
young people — Jewish and non-
Bank includes footage from the
Jewish alike — about the Holocaust.
Nazis' propaganda film about
It's crucial to find ways of approaching
Theresienstadt, along with other
the subject that are fresh, effective,
archival images. Those who go to Last
Dance simply for the thrill of watching accurate, and yes, even entertaining.
Last Dance succeeds brilliantly on all
major-league artists creating a piece
from scratch receive a little history les- counts.
— Michael Fox
son as a bonus.