interpenetration

The work draws on Yoruba ideas of cyclical time and the interpenetration of the living, the dead and the not-yet-born.

The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.

But this interpenetration is going on also in younger troupes, companies where you’d expect the founding choreographer to be jealous of his stage time.

He is giving us a tour, but he is also making a case about the interpenetration of the cultures that mixed as the sackings unfolded.

Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.