Acclaimed contemporary dance collective New Dialect returns to OZ Arts for an innovative evening of dance theater inspired by women and their resilience.

After artistic director Banning Bouldin was diagnosed with a debilitating neurological disorder, she began investigating new methods that would allow her to continue choreographing. This research led to the creation of The Triangle, a surrealistic new work that poetically combines conceptual fashion, sculpture, and powerful imagery to re-envision limitations as opportunities to uncover new strengths.

The program also includes the U.S. premiere of Roy Assaf’s Girls, a work praised for its intricate and thoughtful choreography, and the timeliness of its themes. Assaf, an award winning Israeli choreographer, former soldier, and a father of 3 daughters shares his response to female stereotypes in a work that provides a multifaceted and complex vision of contemporary women in society.

This is the fourth New Dialect project commissioned and presented by OZ Arts.

“Bouldin’s choreography, both technically complex and emotionally resonant, packs a universal punch that transcends the personal circumstances that spawned it.”

— Marcie Sillman, And Another Thing blog | September 2017

“It is difficult to write about GIRLS. It resists dismantling like a live creature. In an almost miraculous manner, it succeeds in being a contradiction in terms. It is full of grace, wisdom and depth; it is frivolous and objectifying, yet at the same time also censorious and saturated with grief and pain.”

— Mirit Ben-Israel | November 2015