Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: Layla Means Night

live score by master musicians Houman Pourmehdi and Pirayeh Pourafar

Serving up horrific melodrama as dance-theater divertissement, choreographer Rosanna Gamson and her company World Wide take on the tale of Scheherazade, the cunning bride from One Thousand and One Nights whose skills as a storyteller saved her from a murderous husband. Layla Means Night cleverly employs hyped-up spectacle, along with enticements, misdirections and artful games of smoke-and-mirrors, to craft an intricate exploration of violence, complicity and our insatiable desire to be entertained, set to a live score by master musicians Houman Pourmehdi and Pirayeh Pourafar.

"A confident choreographer deploying a full theatrical toolbox of movement, music, words and props..." —Los Angeles Times

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