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Illinoise review – brilliant story of loss, grief and reconciliation
Dreamlike logic and exceptional choreography make this wordless interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinois album a deserving winner of a Tony award
Tragic images – bodies jumping from on high – mingle with supremely confident simplicity It begins with a camping trip where Ricky Ubeda’s sad-eyed Henry goes to forget his troubles. His companions tell stories through movement that reflect their concerns about their own lives: one casts influential Americans in the shape of zombies, their arms pushing upwards like tree branches; the song Jacksonville conjures an iridescent tap dance. But the piece, set under a floating forest and amid steel girders by Adam Rigg, digs deeper when it begins to unfurl the story of Henry’s love for his friend Carl and the complex feelings triggered by his desertion and suicide.
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