What makes a family? Complex, sprawling ideas of the modern family - interracial, interethnic, binuclear, blended - are at the center of 'The Cinderella Principle: Try These On, See If They Fit,' Robert Moses' sometimes engrossing, sometimes enigmatic new dance work, which his company, Robert Moses' Kin, premiered Thursday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Novellus Theater.It's an ambitious effort, and Moses, a dancemaker of passionate ideas, has brought together a multiplicity of resources. Barely visible behind a pale scrim, Anne Galjour delivers the text, giving voice to stories drawn from real-life interviews. In the shadows beside her, violinist Todd Reynolds and beatboxer Kid Beyond unleash an evocative, assaultive original score, reflecting the kind of modern angst in the robotic motions of the 11 dancers inhabiting the world in front of them.
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