Kate Mattingly on Trajal Harrell’s “The Ghost of Montpellier meets the Samurai.”
By the end of the performance, the stage of Zellerbach Playhouse was strewn with costumes, toys, and vegetables. Five white squares that had served as platforms and pedestals for dancing were empty. The microphones the performers used to address us, to sing, and to provoke “historical impossibilities” lay silent on a table. Last Thursday, March […]
