Lineage Dance Company, January 27, 2018, Lineage Performing Arts Center

Pasadena-based Lineage Dance Company produced an unusual and very personal show called "Stories of Identity: Gender & Sexuality" that was touching and thought provoking. In it, five speakers alternated with short dances connected to the theme. The speakers, all of whom were either non-heterosexual, non-binary gender, or both, told of their personal experiences such as coming out during high school, a mother's refusal to acknowledge a same-sex relationship, learning to appreciate drag culture as a gay man, and living in the world as a non-binary person. The dances were performed to live renditions of songs including two from Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Origin of Love, Wicked Little Town), and a pair of recordings of wedding vows from a gay wedding. The dancers, led by Artistic Director Hilary Thomas, were strong, supple, and sensitive.