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Needles to Thread and urban poverty ~ The Unheard of World @ Exit ~ Soprano Susanna Phillips

Image from Jo Kreiter's previous aerial dance choreography 'Multiple Mary and Invisible Jane'.

This week on Open Air, host David Latulippe talks to soprano Susanna Phillips, who will sing Barber’s 'Knoxville’ with the SF Symphony Orchestra this week. Aerial dance maker Jo Kreiter discusses the world premiere of her choreography 'Needles to Thread: Dancing Along These Lines in Continuum Alley’, the third and final installment in a trilogy about urban poverty. Translator and theater director Michelle Haner discusses FoolsFURY’s North American premiere of 'The Unheard of World', a dark and eccentric fantasy by celebrated French playwright Fabrice Melquiot. She is joined in the studio by composer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Cantrell who wrote the musical score for the play. And regular contributor and critic at large Peter Robinson enlightens us with a few film reviews.

Open Air with David Latulippe; heard live on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 1pm. Listen now or anytime.