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For Nature Theater, a capacious, playful experimental theater company in New York City that is known for its risk and rigor, dance serves a distinct purpose.

Castalia first discovered Sure We Can not as a canner, but as a performer, when his experimental theater company put on a show in cleared-out warehouse space there.

Operating in a realm uncurtailed by everyday rationalism, Foreman and the Wooster Group are the experimental theater love-match we’ve been waiting for.

That spirit of fellowship prompted Taylor to join an experimental theater production that dramatizes the neighborhood’s distinct character and explores the complexities of its demise: “Displacement: Stories From Section 14.”

She wrote extensively about pioneering playwrights and troupes like Robert Wilson, Mabou Mines and the Wooster Group, translating her knowledge of French literary theory into terms that general readers could grasp, a form of code-switching that made her one of the most important interpreters of experimental theater of the late 20th century.