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Dubois is a graduate of the literal school of hard knocks.

Instead of Dr. Mary, who graduated from the “school of hard knocks,” we have Olivia Finch, played by Toks Olagundoye, a Black woman who is chair of the psychology department at Harvard, and whose sister, we learn, is provost at Yale.

Mr. Black’s theatrical approach to performance extended to dramatic speaking — he commissioned a large-scale work from Philip Glass that includes the recitation of poetry by Lou Reed and Patti Smith — and even dancing, as a member of Yoshiko Chuma’s School of Hard Knocks, an interdisciplinary troupe.

That’s always true of any live performance, but even more so when it comes to the highly collaborative and volatile happenings that Chuma directs for her multidisciplinary company, the School of Hard Knocks.

Though decidedly not a retrospective, it includes footage from some of Chuma’s recent works and a short film from 1980, “The School of Hard Knocks: Adventure in Moving,” a highlight of the show.