The Birds

At L’Alliance New York, *The Birds* arrives as a dance work that borrows its title and atmosphere from Daphne du Maurier’s mid-century story collection, a book whose publication history shifted between U.K. and U.S. editions and titles. The performance treats that literary legacy as source material rather than script, translating dread, interruption, and sudden turns into physical form. No specific NYC premiere history is widely documented for this work, but its placement in a French cultural institution situates it within the city’s long exchange between literature, translation, and stage experiment. The result is more study than spectacle, attentive to how fear spreads.