Molière: Dancer in New York

About Molière

Molière is the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, a French playwright and actor whose comedies and hybrid stage works helped define early modern theater. Many of his plays were built to accommodate movement as well as text, making dance a natural route back into his world. In New York City, his work is re-entering public space through Prospect Park with *Molière in the Park: Don Juan*, staged as dance. The approach favors structure and satire over literary reverence, treating the classic as performance material rather than museum piece.