9 Must-See Performances at Atlas Intersections
metroweekly.comMetro Weekly before the 2022 event.Organizers also kept the lineup focused on performances, largely forgoing “the other types of programs and workshops and free events that take place throughout.” By “other types of programs,” Yeuell was referring to the dozen or so supplemental activities offered most of the first 11 years of the festival — pre-pandemic programming that made for a more vibrant and bustling experience, as festival-goers lingered longer throughout the center in between shows.Now, as the Atlas gears up to host its second in-person festival since the pandemic, organizers have, by and large, stuck to the same blueprint.
As a result, Intersections 2023 has grown to a rather significant degree, in both quantity and duration, with a total of 35 distinct shows, all but two scheduled over five consecutive weekends.
The festival kicks into high gear in March, with 13 shows scheduled for the first weekend of the month, and another dozen on the second weekend — resulting in two-thirds of this year’s entire lineup jam-packed in two back-to-back weekends.As in previous years, Intersections programming falls into one of three principal categories.
This year, essentially half are oriented around dance or Movement, a third are music or Sound-based, and the rest, a total of six events, are a mix of theater, spoken word, and film and grouped under the broad genre of Story.A review of the full slate of programming reveals as strong and as varied a festival as ever.
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