The Moving Architects presents "Restless Women"

The Moving Architects’ Restless Women is an evening of dance about women, friendship, and changing times, celebrating the company’s 20th Anniversary Season in its artistic director’s home community of Montclair, NJ. From The New Jam a 1960s-stylized quartet marked by Stepford Wives-esque precision, flashes of abandon, and a soundtrack of surf and British rock; to Where She Once Stood: Boarder’s Kitchen a jazz-infused duet portraying the resilient lives of women seeking work, safety, and community in a 1930s boarding house; to From the Sea, Across the Field, Up the Hill, a bluegrass-scored work about friends embracing the landscape and each other in a literary-inspired world, these works and the exceptional dancers who bring these stories to life exemplify The Moving Architects’ power to create compelling worlds filled with rigorous, spatially alive, fiercely feminine dance. 

As the company celebrates two decades of making dance, Restless Women looks both backward and forward, bringing together these works…