Common Language
While Helen Keller’s story has taken many incarnations, dance is a fitting medium for portraying the blind and deaf woman who communicated with physical gestures. Thodos Dance Chicago explores Keller’s relationship with her longtime teacher, Anne Sullivan, in A Light in the Dark. Created by award-winning choreographers Ann Reinking and Melissa Thodos, the piece evokes “an old-fashioned storytelling art not often seen in choreography today,” according to the Chicago Tribune. As the story unfolds onstage, Keller transforms from a disconnected child into one able to participate in the world around her, an emotional journey exquisitely expressed through dance.
