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“…the marvel of Not About Iraq is its ringing clarity. This is a work of quiet but engrossing power, fueled by the way it raises disturbing questions.”
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The Washington Post
The question of civic responsibility and the artist’s role in bringing truth to light has been driving Victoria Marks’ choreography since 2002 when she began creating a series of dances she now calls
Not About Iraq. Setting out to engage a set of poetics accessible only through movement, Marks’ work explores the ways that dancing can conjure meaning and speak about the human experience.
Not About Iraq interrogates the body and the mind, displaying the communicative power of danced metaphors about vitality, impermanence, beginnings and endings.
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MetLife Foundation.
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