Popping in on the world of celebrity, reality, and make-believe
If you didn’t read the program notes, you might not have a clue that Morgan Thorson’s provocative dance theater piece “Faker” explores “impersonation, obsession and ritualistic behavior.” Overall, it’s a bit of a muddle, entertaining but disjunct.

However, you would certainly get that it has something to do with our culture’s fixation on celebrity and the shallow artifice that often embodies.

Not through yet
Paul Taylor at the Shubert, plus Morgan Thorson’s Faker

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I got a sharp attack of déja vu when I entered the theater at the Institute for Contemporary Art Thursday night for a performance of Faker, by the Minneapolis-based choreographer Morgan Thorson .... We were way back in the 1960s, when avant-garde dancers thought that if they could rid themselves of all dance pretensions and behave like ordinary people, the audience would become democratized overnight, and dance could start up with a new agenda.