Through the Portals

First created by Beth Jucovy in collaboration with Visual artist Susan Ruth Rohen, Through the Portals depicts dancers as colors that begin as one entity. The colors separate and establish independent identity. As the dance proceeds, the colors interact in various groupings, evolving and changing. Through the Portals developed out of Ms. Jucovy’s 2014 theatrical ballet ColorSong Universe, also an an interpretation of Ms. Cohen’s Colorsong paintings and poem. Both artists reworked their original Colorsong interpretation in order to go deeper “through the portals” of their initial explorations. The result is a more abstract and complex work. The work has been restaged in full for this 2024 program of Art and Music in Motion.