Ravish
Ravish is an evening-length dance theater piece for five performers inspired by the Bronte family. Featuring highly integrated video projection by Barnaby Levy, Ravish reimagines the creative hothouse in which the Brontes sisters wrote intensely Romantic fiction without the benefit of real-life experience (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). Ravish presents adolescence as an altered state.
Born in early 19th century England, the five Bronte sisters and their one brother all died from tuberculosis before the age of 40, the eldest two in girlhood. Without literally depicting their story, Ravish takes as its jumping-off point the family and the mythology surrounding them, which centers on their huge creative output and their isolation from the rest of the world.
Premiere: November 2007
New Los Angeles Theater Center
Los Angeles