The Monsters

*The Monsters* arrives at New York City Center as a live dance work that treats “monsters” less as creatures than as social projections. Onstage, bodies shift between group patterns and isolated figures, using repetition and distortion to suggest how fear is built and circulated. It reads as part of New York’s ongoing interest in contemporary dance that borrows from theater without becoming narrative. The most telling detail is its restraint: it lets the audience sit with ambiguity rather than explaining it away.