Avignon 2011: Staging and Dancing the Past and Present

Although heavily weighted toward dance theater, the 2011 Avignon Festival also featured many non-dance works conceived and directed by such provocative French and European artists as Arthur Nauzyciel, Romeo Castelluci, Pascal Rambert, Angélica Liddell, and Vincent Macaigne. Their pieces offered a bracing mix of both freshly minted narratives and established stories retold in new ways, often raising questions of what and how we remember.