Rachael Lieblein-Jurbala Dance
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Russell's Teapot (2020)
WestFest Dance Festival (November 2020)

"Russell's Teapot" considers the following irrefutable fact: There are two sides to every story, except in the case of irrefutable facts.

"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
-Bertrand Russell, 1952


Music: Flight From the City by Johann Johannsson
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  • Home
  • Upcoming Performances
  • About
  • Choreography
    • Fix Point (Knowing Better)
    • The Daughter of Daughters
    • Russell's Teapot
    • Because We Obeyed, Your Mile Went Unwalked
    • Shells
    • "...and I will never ever let you down."
    • Of Particular Moral Rightness
    • The Expansive Joy of Solitude
  • Gallery
  • Contact
  • Three Salt, Three Sesame