Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

From the Inside Out

Think ballerinas in tutus and you might imagine pirouettes and great leaps across the stage. Miniature ballerinas in music boxes? Just plastic dolls that spin to the cranking of a key. Orkestriska, a dancer in the human-scale music box of Orkestriska’s Box, is simultaneously both and neither of these incarnations. In a multimedia production that draws on local talent, Burlington’s Trish Denton examines Orkestriska’s psyche, along with female representation in art and society. Stop-motion animation brings the dancer’s haunting dreams to life, while original compositions from local musician Randal Pierce provide a soundtrack for silent acting and classical dance.