The Chemistry of Lime Trees - Reston Community Center

What divides us? How do we negotiate the various borders in our lives?

Inspired by these questions, Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround explores the impact of real or perceived borders through two factual, historical stories in a premiere theatrical dance piece.

Part One focuses on a story from the Ellis Island archives about a young Russian woman abandoned on her way into America by her fiance.

Part Two, drawn from the Bosnian War, focuses on Bosko and Admira, a real-life Romeo and Juliet, and how their struggle against societal, religious and political borders eventually lead to their deaths.

Through the realistic theatre motifs and the physicality of dance, The Chemistry of Lime Trees combines athletic movement, live singing, text and provocative images to create a work both lush and stark, straightforward and layered, and concrete and abstract.