Dance a matter of life, death and interpretation

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: February 7, 2006| Author: TOM STRINI | Copyright information

Milwaukee Dance Theatre's work grows harder to classify and describe with each passing season.

Co-directors Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson describe their latest, Andy Kirshner's "The Museum of Life and Death," as "a high- tech, sci-fi, jazz spectacle."

Kirshner, a friend and frequent collaborator, set the work in the 26th century, well into post-human age of intelligent androids who know neither pain nor death. Like their human progenitors, the androids wonder about the past an...

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