"Things That Make Us" - An Evening of New Dance Theater by Molly Lynch-Clark and Lailye Weidman. With her multidisciplinary ensemble cast, Lynch-Clark has devised an imagined space with science fiction-like flair. Facing an unknown future, the work asks, “What if a society were organized around shared humanity?”  Weidman’s iterative solo project Other Refrains wrestles with the weight of ancestry and lineage, utilizing family gestures and embodied memories as a map to move through present times. Through storytelling, dance, and vocalization, Weidman weaves threads from her own family, while reaching toward collective reckoning with the things that make us.  While drawing from distinct practices and aesthetics, both artists combine movement and text, engaging the idiom of “dance theater” from a playful and experimental approach. They both craft performances that are refreshingly relatable and direct, while also embracing visceral and unexpected languages of the body.