Boston Dance Theater performs Red is a feeling—an evening of short dance works which present multi-faced expressions of love, longing, and the fight to live, woven together by the color Red. The program takes its title from a new commission by Iranian-Hispanic choreographer Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad who was diagnosed with two forms of cancer in her early thirties, undergoing chemotherapy and multiple surgeries. Boston Dance Theater commissioned Roya to make a new piece which“recalls the sensations where the experience of fighting for your life, holding on to each minute, and letting go all collide into the here and now.” Roya’s piece is paired with BDT Founder/Co-Director Jessie Jeanne Stinnett’s “Fifties” – set to a collection of favorite popular tunes from the 1950s. With the healing power of movement at its center, ‘Fifties’ celebrates joy and rhythm and invites the audience to clap along as the work unfolds. Jessie and Roya’s pieces are joined by two stirring duets from BDT’s repertoire: ‘If as if” by Itzik Galili and “Firebird” by Marco Goecke.
