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Gay skype4/7/2024 ![]() (“Stardust” has a strong biblical undercurrent.) Junior faces a lot of adversity, its severity only intensified by the tossed-off medium of vowel-less words and emoticons: the death of his grandfather, who is his closest and perhaps only friend rape by his foster dad getting beat up by the boy he likes and most pervasively, wondering if he is worthy of being loved, by others and by God. Roussève’s company, from Los Angeles, Reality, sway through a gentle opening phrase. “Dear person who b at this #: Sup?” Junior writes by way of introduction, as the 10 distinctive dancers of Mr. The voice at the heart of this 80-minute dance-theater piece, which had its regional premiere on Thursday in Montclair State University’s Peak Performances series, speaks to us via text messages, projected on the back wall of the theater. The first thing to know about David Roussève’s “Stardust” is that you never actually see its protagonist, a black gay urban teenager named Junior.
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