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"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 ,, 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.