Robert Moses' KIN Celebrates 30th Anniversary Season
Robert Moses’ KIN celebrates its 30th Anniversary Season entitled The Kennings, with a world premiere program of work by Artistic Director Robert Moses and three new works created by the 2025 guest artists of RMK’s New Legacies: One Acts program. Moses delves into his signature exploration of sensuality, war, race, human rights, and individual freedoms through dynamic choreography with profound emotional depth, while also providing original sound and text for The Kennings. The works generated through New Legacies: One Acts, a platform for emerging and established voices in contemporary dance, feature collaborative teams working with choreography, text and music, resulting in dynamic, multi-disciplined works. This season’s collaborative teams are: Yayoi Kambara (Choreography) and Loni Landon (Choreography), Janesta Edmonds (Playwright) and Angela Yam (Music); Nol Simonse (Choreography), Jim Cave (Text) and Lawrence Tome (Music); and Megan & Shannon Kurashige (Choreography and Text) and Erika Oba (Music).
Moses’ The Kennings, featuring eleven dancers, is marked by a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries and fostering a dialogue on shared experiences. Moses describes The Kennings as “a narrative impressionist anthology, a meditation on the emotional, societal, racial, political, and gender-oriented expectations placed on all of us, with a specific focus at times on the experiences of Black men and African American diasporic concerns. For me, the most direct way to effect social change and meaningful human interaction is by characterizing society through the body and the word.”
Moses explains that the original text and movement of The Kennings are “a compound of accounts hidden over time by artists sentenced to an ‘Artist Gulag.’ These muted retellings, echo like barks from a kennel of the dead, are haunting, possessing a spectral quality. The utterances, poetically metaphorical, hint at profound loss endured.”
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