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| photo of Helanius J. Wilkins by Sadar Aziz |
Once in a while there is a performance that grips me, takes
me by surprise, and leads me into unexplored places that both inspire and
challenge. That performance happened last night at Dance Place when Helanius J.
Wilkins presented /CLOSE/R.
What made this experience even more powerful was that I had
seen different iterations of this work since I serve as his thesis project
advisor at George Washington University. I met Helanius a year ago when he was
a student in a MFA course I taught at GWU called “Contemporary Performance
& Criticism.” Instantly I was drawn to his thinking: perceptive, critical, creative.
