Television and film star Claire Danes will appear in Christina Olson: American Model at P.S. 122, where she will perform the Tamar Rogoff-choreographed dance piece from September 22nd though October 2nd. The title does not refer to a supermodel, but to the woman in Andrew Wyeth's famous painting Christina's World; the woman is seen lying on a golden field of grain, her body twisted toward a distant house. In real life, Olson was afflicted with muscular deterioration. Never diagnosed, it crippled her lower body and caused her limbs to be weak. However, she refused wheelchairs and willed herself to move without them. Danes is returning to P.S. 22 after having performed there at the age of 6. She endeared herself to a generation of teenagers as Angela in the short-lived cult favorite "My So-Called Life" (for which she received an Emmy nomination), and made the transition to film. Her movie credits include How To Make an American Quilt, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, Les Miserables, Brokedown Palace, Igby Goes Down, The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Stage Beauty and Shopgirl, the upcoming adaptation of the Steve Martin novel.
