The Opal Door

Every moment is poised in eternity. Structured as a series of disparate snapshots offering a multi-faceted vision of possibility, fear, cataclysm, and redemption, The Opal Door presents a world on the brink.

From this precarious suspended moment – replete with grief and promise, in all its blind violence and stubborn, transformative beauty – a community looks forward and back, ever returning, ever struggling to conquer the desperate present, ever grappling with the haunting presence of unseen forces operating in their midst.

With a unique fusion of classical and post-modern dance forms and a world-ranging vocabulary of movement, Khecari Dance Theatre invites you on an epic journey to the present day: frozen and explosive, minute and expansive, tender and violent, grotesquely evocative and startlingly hopeful.

Guest artist Asimina Chremos joins eight Khecari dancers in this work set to music by Mandible Chatter with Encomiast and Toby Sinkerson and costumed by Iris Bainum-Houle. The Opal Door is a premiere evening-length work employing Khecari Artistic Director Jonathan Meyer’s signature style: "a crisp capoeira-infused modern dance with smoky ballet notes, a heady post-modern bouquet, subtle danztheatre undertones, and a lightly floral butoh finish."