ADF Presents: Monica Bill Barnes & Company

Program: Many Happy Returns

Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission

Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office.

A New York Times critic’s pick, Many Happy Returns is a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to dance over. “An experiment in the art of camaraderie and connection, of strangers finding community in a broken world” (The New York Times). Many Happy Returns is a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we’ve become.

Tuesday, July 7 at 7:30 pm

Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30 pm *Post-Performance Discussion

Thursday, July 9 at 7:30 pm

Friday, July 10 at 7:30 pm

Photo Credit: Paula Lobo

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