Abilities Dance Boston’s ‘Firebird’: A fairytale recontextualized

Livestreamed from the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA.
April 13, 2021.Fairy tales are a key part of conventional childhood, and — as such — they run deep in the collective imagination. As social values and perspectives change, do these fairytales become outdated? Does it behoove us to update them for the times? Abilities Dance Boston seems to have done just that, with ingenuity and passion, with Firebird. The “firebird” is a Slavic fairytale archetype,