![]() ![]() And an experiment in how to talk about environmental crisis without talking about it working on the senses rather than storytelling, offering nature as its hero, and giving just the slightest possibility of hope. It’s like a meditation, a bleak but strangely powerful one. Sucked into the enveloping swell of Joel Cadbury’s ambient soundtrack, UniVerse seems to be in its own time zone – you have no idea how many minutes have passed. Those images, allowed to linger, are arguably more effective than the dance. And film designer Ravi Deepres provides arresting single images: an oil rig ablaze, a bird washed up on a beach, slowly swallowed by a thick black slick. We get direct words from young poet Isaiah Hull, listing the world’s ills: “The next generation pays the price,” he says in voiceover. Rather than the characterful protagonists that tell the film’s story, the always-impressive dancers from Company Wayne McGregor embody the natural elements: water (or melting icecaps), with bodies flowing snakily and mouths contorted in silent screams earth, signified by beautifully twisting tree roots on their catsuits, the art-meets-avant-garde-fashion costumes designed by Philip Delamore and Alex Box air, with celestial skies and a scene complete with staring eyeball, a nod to oracle Aughra from the film and fire, in which the dancers wear wing-like lacy sleeves, raging through a forest that’s burnt to black.Īrresting images … UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey. McGregor’s point is that this isn’t fantasy, this is our world. ![]() But a picture of a world in peril, yes, that is here, a place with its elements dangerously out of balance on the verge of destruction. ![]() There are no fantastical puppets here, no mythical worlds, no sweet elf-like creatures on a quest for a crystal, no obvious division between two sides, the wise and the cruel, goodies and baddies. Contact (810) 233-8815 for details.T he key thing to know about Wayne McGregor’s new show is that, although it was inspired by Jim Henson’s cult 1982 film The Dark Crystal, it is nothing like The Dark Crystal. Include intensive outpatient, individual counseling, case management, peer recovery support services, and family support resources. Website: Flint Odyssey House’s adolescent substance abuse program is designed to address the drug use of Genesee County area teens between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. ![]() Contact (810) 232-7919 for details.įlint Odyssey Village Adolescent Outpatient Our programs are alternatives to inpatient and residential Supports, facilitate relapse management, and instill coping The program is designed to help establish We offer day treatment, intensive outpatient and With substance use disorders or dual diagnoses who do not require medical detoxification or 24-hour supervision. Website: Flint Odyssey House’s outpatient services are for people Funding support is available to anyone who meets priority population status from throughout the State of Michigan. Programs include integrated treatment of substance abuse disorders and mental health problems and a comprehensive family care model which allows parents (male or female) and all their minor children (newborn – 17) to reside together and receive a full continuum of services for both the parent(s) and their children. Our comprehensive family treatment programs are state designated providers for priority populations which include pregnant and parenting mothers and fathers. Website: Long term multi-service therapeutic community. 529 Martin Luther King Avenue, Flint MI 48503 ![]()
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