It's hard for performing artists to think big these days and actually pull it off. Shrinking budgets often lead to an overabundance of caution. That's what makes it all the more impressive that year after year, Margaret Jenkins consistently generates works of ideas and scale like "Light Moves," which the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company premiered Thursday night at the Novellus Theater as part of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts season.
Over the two-year process of creating "Light Moves," Jenkins - along with her collaborators, including composer Paul Dresher, video artist Naomie Kremer and poet Michael Palmer, as well as the eight dancers of her company - has judiciously edited the work, paring away some of the more distracting elements seen in previews last year.
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