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"BORDER CROSSING" "Rendon’s script, which is excerpted and adapted by this production, is loaded with rich detail... But the theater-makers keep an eye out for another border; that spot where a finely textured, impassioned political statement becomes heavy-handed and indulgent. For the better part of the show, they’re tackling difficult themes with honesty and admirable restraint...the show’s most vital, compelling element...the dancers Dana Buchwald, Erin Drummond, Zeb Henderson Shreve, and John Zeiler—move through the desert in relative silence with sharp, careful movements. Theirs is an elemental, primal performance, " Christy DeSmith - mnartists.org "The program notes for Border Crossing, Off-Leash Area’s new work, state that “it is not our intention to create a political statement with Border Crossing, at our core not being a politically motivated company, although, as political people will tell you, everything’s political.” I don’t think they achieved a non-political piece of theater. It is impossible to deal with such provocative subject matter and not have a political point of view. What they have achieved, however, is to create an ambitious, visually stunning epic that is emotionally compelling; and a complex, well-researched exploration of the topic of immigration... Ultimately, however, Border Crossing is a complex work of storytelling, full of discourse and imagery. The production asks more questions than it answers, but it addresses a very important political issue with empathy and grace." Sheila Regan, Education Coordinator for Teatro Del Pueblo for The Daily Planet "It's difficult to imagine any work about the U.S.-Mexico border and illegal immigration not being laden with considerable political baggage, but Off-Leash Area has managed the feat with Border Crossing...an occasionally evocative meditation...agitated and precise choreography... This is a work in search not of answers but of the intangible truths beneath the hard realities. Quite frequently it finds those elusive ghosts" - Quinton Skinner, City Pages
Along with text written by Anishinaabe playwright Marcie Rendon, and music composed by Ben Siems, Border Crossing is informed by stories from small-town Mexican citizens, Tucson snowbirds, Latino Border Patrolmen, and Native social workers told first hand to the artistic team while they were researching along the border last fall, thanks to a Minnesota State Arts Board Artists' Initiative Grant.
"Any production by Off-Leash Area is an event: this group consistently pulls together extraordinary talents from all over town to produce performance that is dance, installation, theater, and concert in one" - Ann Klefstad, Editor of News & Features mnartists.org For more on Off-Leash Area please visit www.offleasharea.org |
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