Experiences of bias told through personal stories, movement and visual art.

Featured at Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival 2019, Jane Franklin Dance returns to Theatre on the Run with excerpts from Border.  In this movement theatre work, individuals describe barriers experienced through career, racial, gender or ethnic prejudice. People speak of real-life experiences: a woman working in a male dominated career, an HIV positive young adult, a black woman negotiating cultural assumptions, a Latino delayed by police, disability and employment, biracial marriage, same-sex parenthood, and the lengthy process of legal immigration.  Find threads of isolation residing alongside the urge for belonging, told through personal stories, movement and visual art. Set is by Scenic and Projections Designer for Theater and Opera, Jonathan Dahm Robertson.

“Must See” guest companies perform over the three week run:
Jan 25 –
Jane Franklin Dance: Thorn in My Side is inspired by the hair trigger temper and baffling conflicts brought about by cartoon character Yosemite Sam
Forty+ by Carly Johnson – Perennial is about the relevance of time.
Glade Dance Collective District. Redefined? revisits one of Glade’s seminal works, District. Defined? (2010) and updates it to reflect the ways both D.C. and our relationship with the city have changed over the last decade.
Jane Franklin Dance: Border (excerpts)

Feb 1 –
Jane Franklin Dance: Thorn in My Side is inspired by the hair trigger temper and baffling conflicts brought about by cartoon character Yosemite Sam
Forty+ by Emily Crews – Emily Crews of Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble brings back her Beatles tribute “Life Goes On,” a group work for six dancers
DanceArtTheater will perform (recapture), a woman’s memory of her past.
Jane Franklin Dance: Border (excerpts)

Feb 8 –
Jane Franklin Dance: Thorn in My Side is inspired by the hair trigger temper and baffling conflicts brought about by cartoon character Yosemite Sam
Roxann Morgan Rowley A Journey through blue
Contradiction Dance Kelly King and poet Jonathan B. Tucker join forces once again in their favorite roles as cultural reporters through performance.
Jane Franklin Dance: Border (excerpts)

Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8 @ 7:30 pm
$22
Theatre on the Run
3700 S Four Mile Run Dr, Arlington VA 22206

Tickets $22