The Click turns Longfellow verse into movement and politics, set at the old poet’s Cambridge home

The Click’s “Trembled to Walk On” dance duet embodies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1841 poem “The Skeleton in Armor,” about a body discovered nine years earlier in Fall River buried in armor and in a seated position. Performed at Longfellow’s home in Cambridge, a national historic site, the piece has political relevance: “The current administration is stripping resources from the National Park Service and other organizations attempting to preserve history,” choreographer Alexandria Nunweiler said. “Now more than ever it is important that we consider how we preserve what came before us, who is being included, who is being left out and why, and what can we do … art is a way to preserve history, and that’s what I’m trying to do with this piece.” The event opens with a reading, followed by the performance and a workshop in which dancers show audience members how they too can turn poetry into movement.

This post originally ran in Cambridge Day.