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ART, director shake up`Julius Caesar' ; With dance movesand a '60s-inspired set

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080213
Author:Megan Tench

CAMBRIDGE - Inside a rehearsal hall, three unshaven men wearing black dance shoes are sprawled out across the floor, lifeless. Actor James True-Frost gets on bended knee, over and over again, then thrusts himself into the scene, Brutus's bloody end, followed by a ghostly party of the dead.

Here's where the dance shoes and a jazz trio come in.

"You are not in the same story," the young French director Arthur Nauzyciel says to the dead before a choreographer teaches them their dance moves. "You are not in the same world. At some point you'll arrive at the other side."

Giggling, he references the ...

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