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Redefine US, from the inside OUT, a performance choreographed by Hope Boykin. We re really excited to have her and it ll be her and four or five other dancers, explains Chris Gruits, Executive and Artistic Director of the Annenberg Center, who says Boykin has been using her work to address a lot of current events around race and identity, And so I think this piece is going to be a direct kind of response to that. Boykin is also a dancer and educator. Hope is a really tremendous dance artist. She danced with Alvin Ailey for around 20 years. And prior to that she was dancing with our own, Philadelphia s own Philadanco, Gruits says. ....
Steal Her Bones tells the story of Diana, a renowned evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist She publicly conducts debates with creationists about things like the age of the earth and intelligent design, explains Thomas Gibbons, InterAct s Playwright-in-Residence. Diana is scheduled to debate a theologian named Martin but just before the debate, she s diagnosed with cancer and is forced to cancel. After Diana dies, Martin publishes an essay, in which he says that they had their debate in private, Gibbons says, he believes that she came to accept God in her final days. There s a third character in the play, Diana s wife Ellen, who challenges Martin s story and says there was no deathbed conversation. That leads to one of the play s primary philosophical questions. ....