The New Yorker previews Brujx | NYU Skirball Center

Choreographer luciana achugar’s works have become countercultural rituals of resistance by way of ostentatious pleasure, with much moaning and crawling. Her new piece “Brujx” is part of Marx Festival: On Your Marx, and its socialist theme is the oppression of the proletariat: whether the idea of dance as labor can be transcended through a kind of primal magic.