The postmodern world often overreaches itself dreaming up new mixtures, and ends up with, say, artichoke ice cream. Christopher Caines tries a more genial combination: a musicale with dancers. The atmosphere in the Construction Company studio suggests an evening of parlor music performed by an excellent pianist, Marija Ilic, and accomplished singers Alexandra Montano and Sarah Gibson. The composers, however, range from 17th- and 18th-century Italians through Schoenberg and Gershwin. And the choreography, sensitively keyed to the ambience of the songs and to the different performers, is intense and... More >>>