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Best known as a choreographer and judge on multiple seasons of the television dance competition “So You Think You Can Dance,” Michaels’s brand of contemporary movement reflects her own passionate, creative, and tenacious personality.

Language, when it reaches us through music, no longer seems an abstract, bodiless means of signification, as it so often seems in our daily use or misuse of it: rather, it becomes a sensual presence, a graspable form.

When I first read Father Comes Home, I was drawn to the epic scale of the three parts and the weight of the subject matter and then disarmed by the humor and crazy juxtapositions.