For Drought and Rain, Vol. 2, Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola follows up her dance exploration of life during wartime with war's effects on the next generation. Sola was only twelve when she left Vietnam in 1974, so she has a foot in both worlds. There's more preview video, if you're into that kind of thing. There are thirteen dancers and, happily, six musicians (we get a little tired of canned music and dance). In the usual ham-fisted way that people go about making arts seem relevant, there's a sense of Oh, how topical, an examination of how war reverberates socially beyond the years in which it is fought in the promotional copy. We say, don't frame the experience before you have it. Go watch the people dance.
