colon<>="" medium;"="">Montreal-based American choreographer Andrew Skeels’ practice intermingles elements of contemporary, classical and street dance<>period<> His seasonal work Rose of Jericho bears his unmistakable stamp<>colon<> a line like a sharp, forceful gesture<>period<> Skeels uses the resilient Middle Eastern plant as a metaphor for transcultural cross-fertilization between perseverance and rebirth<>period<>