Katrina, Katrina: Love Letters to New Orleans

Pearsonwidrig Dancetheater's love song for a waterlogged city is both heart-wrenching and wryly comic, offering a gratefully non-reportorial look at the recent tragedy that befell New Orleans. "Katrina, Katrina: Love Letters to New Orleans" serves both as a paean to a lost world and a testament to survival, with its finely tuned choreographic moments, projected photographs and video of the destruction, a selection of savory jazz, blues and -- most telling -- personal accounts from 12 Tulane University dance students.

from the Washington Post