Not long ago, the choreographer and musician Olivier Tarpaga, who teaches at Princeton University, wanted to visit the city of his birth and his father’s grave in the north of Burkina Faso. But the region had been overrun by violent jihadists, and he learned that his hometown was now home to a refugee camp for women and children. Instead of visiting, he made a dance theater work about refugees: “Once the dust settles, flowers bloom.”
At the start of the piece, which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday as part of…
