Sarah Kaufman, The Washington Post
March 16, 2014

“The Tempest Replica,” a hybridized mime-dance-theater interpretation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” begins with an exquisite piece of storytelling. From the first moments of this production by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, the theater seemed to shake with cracks of lightning, rain and cries of despair. So enveloping was the storm — visually, aurally, emotionally — that you felt it in your bones.

All this was achieved through simple, minimal stage magic: sound effects, projections on a silver scrim and clever peekaboo illuminations of dancers whose slipping and sliding was uncannily convincing, as if the American Dance Institute’s stage were a ship being tossed by waves and washed in seawater.[…continued] Read Full Story

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