Andrew Dinwiddie's the Accursed Items September 4, 2008

In 'The Accursed Items,' choreographer Andrew Dinwiddie reanimates the work of other dance and theater artists as discovered in a particular kind of accursed item: deleted scenes and rehearsal videos from never-used and drastically reworked dances. Allternately austere and rambunctious, 'The Accursed Items' draws from material that was not quite good enough for The Wooster Group, Big Dance Theater, Metallica and others. Anchored by text from J. Robert Lennon exposing the lingering psychic life of objects, The Accursed Items is a sympathy card for everything that was never good enough.