Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila

2016-03-14T22:21:42-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Photo by Ian Douglas Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila Yellow Towel, the much lauded solo by Montreal-based choreographer-performer Dana Michel, makes its San Francisco debut this weekend. Riffing on a blurred range of black stereotypes, the piece has the effect of unsettling the specific in favor of an investigation of the condition of otherness—a two-way street in which the audience can find itself squirming under the burden of its reflex