Vegetation figures prominently in Yanira Castro’s 2011 Paradis, which is performed both inside and outside the Garfield Park Conservatory. But she’s no environmentalist; though plants make a gorgeous set, Castro homes in on the human, bringing artists and audiences into the same close space. Paradis seems to follow the arc of its inspiration, Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique (2004), traveling from hell to heaven. When Paradis debuted at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Castro devoted the first third of the hour-long piece to a male soloist whose slow, stiff clockwork motions (in an indoor desert) suggested a well-aged Beckett character. The audience clustered in the dark—a shadowy herd—then ambled outdoors, where figures in white could be glimpsed in the distance.
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Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N. Central Park
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Reservations recommended Free
