Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories

Susan Marshall’s Sleeping Beauty is a metaphorically rich twist on the beloved fairytale, reflecting the choreographer’s pitch-perfect poetic impulses. Her modern-day heroine is no passive Beauty, but a figure iwth unique volition whose dream world defies her would-be rescuers and reveals a consciousness of another order. Other Stories presents a dazzling panorama of physical encounters, each a succinct, often poignant take on the multiple forces that define, undercut, and enhance our complicated lives.