WashU Dance Theatre’s ‘right now.’ shows us how to live in the present

The fall Washington University Dance Theatre (WUDT) production “right now.” teaches the audience what it is to live and move in the moment. Under the artistic direction of David Marchant and choreographed by new Performing Arts Department (PAD) faculty member Liz Stillerman Anderson, MFA student Liz Lloyd, alumna Renée Austin, guest choreographer Shura Baryshnikov, and Lecturer in Dance Elinor Harrison, the pieces were all put together in collaboration with their dancers. “Play it Again,” the second piece in the program, featured four dancers, moving and improvising to music playing from a record player on stage. A dancer approached and lifted the needle onto the record, and then the performance really commenced. The show’s unique lighting consisted of a little box of light that dancers slid and spun in and out freely. Junior Sydney Michelle Campusano, one of the four dancers featured in the piece, only began her dance journey at age 16 through her school’s winter guard.

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