Yukiko Masui / Léa Tirabasso

A spotlight illuminates a single figure, battling an invisible downward pull. Her fists jab out, push away; her body jerks and curves, resisting whatever bonds are dragging her. In staccato bursts, she enacts an endlessly delayed, endlessly opposed fall. Yukiko Masui’s delicate Falling Family is a cinematic meditation on the act of falling or resisting a fall. Four dancers – seemingly representing a family, headed by Yumino Seki’s captivating, damaged matriarch – appear in spotlit scenes across the stage, like…