Over the past couple of months in New York City, some dance artists have braved the process of presenting live performance outdoors. Like most social rituals these days, going to a show, even in the open air, involves a whole new set of behaviors. As you choose where to sit, you try not to encroach on anyone’s six-foot radius. We are, after all, taking these precautions against a backdrop of enormous loss, to prevent loss of an even greater scale. At Eiko Otake’s “A Body in a Cemetery,” death was out in the open.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2020 18:56 UTC