Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, Gathering. Cal Performances Company Debut, West Coast Premiere. Conceived, written, and directed by choreographer Samar Haddad King, Gathering explores themes of love, loss, trauma, and dislocation. Through movement, text, song, and puppetry, an international cohort of collaborating artists tells a fictional story of a village under siege, and one woman’s struggle to reconcile her fragmented memories. Part staged work, part interactive experience, Gathering invites audiences to join as participants and witnesses in the collective action. “An uncommonly deft combination of dance and verbal theater” (The New York Times).