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Location
San Francisco, CA
Project Title
Times Bones
Fiscal Year Awarded
2013
Grant or Program
National Dance Project Production Grant
Grant Amount
$40,000
Known for athletic, layered, and intellectually rigorous work, the MJDC celebrates its 40th anniversary with Times Bones, choreographer Margaret Jenkins' new collaboration with poet Michael Palmer, composer Paul Dresher, and visual designer Alexander V. Nichols. Within the work, Jenkins looks back at the bones of her repertory, including her international collaborations with companies in China and India. As the piece unfolds, dancers inhabit the theater in front and behind translucent and opaque panels that are slowly moved to reveal a charged