Last Dance

The professional dance world is as mysterious to outsiders as a cloistered convent, and almost as insular. Mirra Banks' documentary about the tempestuous collaboration between the Pilobolus dance company and writer-illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) provides an illuminating glimpse into what goes on in the dance studio. Banks follows the development of a work created in 1998 and rooted in Sendak's deep preoccupation with the Holocaust, particularly the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague, Czech Republic, a Potemkin village created by Nazi propagandists to prove that they weren't sending Jews to extermination camps, just relocating them to con...