Beauties, beasts battle in fragile, fevered realm

"The Vivian girls" makes one thing eminently clear: Pat Graney does her homework. The nationally renowned local choreographer spent nearly three years completing this piece, which is based on the paintings of hermetic outsider artist Henry Darger. Graney's work reveals such a close study and understanding of the reclusive, odd man (who died in 1973), it seems she climbed inside his head and returned to show us what she found.