Dance-theater Piece The Vivian Girls Brings Artist's Obsessive Paper Images To Life.

Choreographer Pat Graney stands in front of a vividly colored projection of a painting featuring curly-haired children who look like they stepped down from an early Campbell's Soup can or a Morton Salt label. These innocent-appearing kids are the subject of outsider artist Henry Darger's obsessive paintings and collages, and the inspiration for Graney's dance-theater piece, the Vivian girls, which will be performed at the Florida Dance Festival next weekend.