Arena Stage's Voices of Now Festival

'Present Tense" begins with a heartbeat. Six teenagers, all of whom have experienced a death in the family, create what the Arena Stage Voices of Now program calls "a group breathing tableau." Imagine what your body would do if you exaggerated how it felt to breathe. Inhale: bend down, shoulders hunched, arms in. Exhale: press shoulder blades together, arms out wide. In, out, in, out.