Douglas Dunn’s Dance Idyll, With Undertows of Darkness
“L’ Embarquement pour Cythère,” a 1717 painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau, depicts lovers having a party on an island. They are paired off near a statue of Venus, with encouraging Cupids flying about. Douglas Dunn’s new dance shares a title with the painting, along with some of its pastoral charm and idealization of the past. But…