In dark times, Margaret Jenkins’ absorbing dance ‘Wheel’ brings us back to the light
Some old lines from the playwright Bertolt Brecht that have been making the rounds lately, for good reason as we pass through this alarming period of mounting authoritarianism: “In the dark times / Will there also be singing?” In their echo, Margaret Jenkins’ absorbing new dance “Wheel” adds pressing new questions: “Will it end? If so, when? Will we resist? What world is this?”Those words come from the poet Michael Palmer, who has worked with Jenkins since she founded the Margaret Jenkins Dance...
