Star Light, Star Bright
Autumnal moons hang low in the sky, peering over the earth’s horizon, heavy, intimate, bursting with secrets. Little wonder this season is so rich with traditions that favor the night.
Arcane: A Tale of All Hallow’s Eve, a new full-length story ballet by Charles Anderson, the artistic director and principal choreographer of Company C Contemporary Ballet, follows the custom, giving voice to shadow and shade through the allegorical muse of an attending star, Arcane. Each year, the story goes, Arcane welcomes the dead to do what was left undone and say what was left unsaid. It is a rich time, full of manic beauty and second chances. Despite the somewhat unsettling premise, Arcane promises enchantment for the whole family. Brightly festooned dancing skeletons, fire spinners, and sets drawn from a Rube Goldberg fever dream — not to mention a mysterious scratch-and-sniff technology — make Arcane a richly immersive experience worthy of holding a child’s attention, while adults may rest assured that even open flame and kinetic gadgetry will not upstage Company C’s talent.
— Silke Tudor
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