“Underage” Orphan Solmund Patterson is lifted by the other Orphan dancers in the Hidden Cameras’ stage adaptation of their album Origin/Orphan. Photo by David Topping. It’s taken a few days, but we’ve sufficiently recovered from SummerWorks, and had some time to reflect on the highlights of the multidisciplinary festival. Having seen twenty-five of forty-two plays, [...]

L-R: Lola Lita, Byron Abalos, and Teresa Halili on Lola Lita’s front porch, one of the last stops on the tour. “Today, we’re going to go from Manila, Philippines to Toronto, Canada,” began Byron Abalos as he stood before a rapt group of about twenty SummerWorks tourists, ready to embark on the inaugural run of [...]