Robert Moses' Kin - Performances

Performances

Major Works and Commissions: 2009 Wasteland Production, Stanford University 2008 Reignforest, premiered at Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CA 2008 Towards September, premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2008 Approaching Thought, Rose/Hush, and Consent premiered at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center, San Francisco 2007 Untitled, San Francisco International Arts Festival, Dance Mission Theatre, San Francisco 2007 Jokes Like That Can Get You Killed, premiered at Stanford Lively Arts 2007 Lucifer’s Prance, Doscongio, and Speaking Ill of the Dead, presented at Dance New Amsterdam 2006 Cause, presented at Fall for Dance Festival, New York City Center 2006 Draft, premiered at ODC Theatre, San Francisco 2006 Doscongio, presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2006 The Lost Parade, premiered at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 2006 Speaking Ill of the Dead, premiered at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 2005 President’s Daughter, premiered at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 2005 The Force of Destiny, commissioned choreography for presentation at San Francisco Opera 2005 Woman Spelled Like This, commissioned by African Cultural Exchange in Birmingham, UK 2004 Cause, collaboration with Youth Speaks; premiered at Youth Speaks Living Word Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Jonathan Norton, composer; Marc Bamuthi Joseph, dramaturg 2004 other gods, premiered at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 2003 Biography, with sound excerpts from 1961 discussion with James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Emile Capouya, and Alfred Kazin; premiered at Cowell Theater, San Francisco 2003 The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things, with composer Jonathan Norton; premiered at Cowell Theater, San Francisco 2003 Misconsumption, commissioned and performed by Bare Bones Dance Company, Birmingham, UK 2002 Word of Mouth, with media designer Austin Forbord; premiered at Cowell Theatre, San Francisco 2002 Unión Fraternal, commission to set work on Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati, OH 2001 Unión Fraternal, collaboration with Oakland Ballet and composer John Santos; premiered at Paramount Theatre, Oakland 2001 Babble, commissioned by Transitions Dance Company, London, UK 2001 Dirt Roads and Back Doors, premiered at Cowell and Gershwin Theaters, San Francisco 2001 3 Quartets for 4 and the Second is Two, premiered at Cowell and Gershwin Theaters, San Francisco 2000 Lone, created as Artist-in-Residence at ODC/San Francisco, premiered at ODC 2000 Lucifer’s Prance, premiered at Cowell and Gershwin Theaters, San Francisco 2000 Untitled Collaboration 2000, collaborative work with choreographers Sara Shelton Mann and Robert Henry Johnson, musicians Marcus Shelby and Kelly Takunda Orphan, and the Somei Yoshino Taiko ensemble; premiered at Cowell Theater, San Francisco 1999 Ethel May Marshall, major collaboration of solo works created with choreographers Alonzo King, Margaret Jenkins, Sara Shelton Mann, and K.T. Nelson; premiered at Theater Artaud, San Francisco 1999 Buffalo Avenue and Laugh to Keep From Crying, major works created as part of the Duke/Wattis Residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 1999 Mischief, commissioned by Lawrence Pech Dance Company; premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 1998 Glass; premiered at Theater Artaud, San Francisco 1998 X Weight, commission by Mills Repertory Dance, Oakland 1997 This State of Annihilation; premiered at Brady Street Dance Centre, San Francisco 1997 Servant of the People, choreography for major theater work; Lorraine Hansberry Theater, San Francisco 1996 Crossfire, commission by Savage Jazz Dance Company, San Francisco 1996 Homer G and the Rhapsodies, choreography for major theater work; Lorraine Hansberry Theater, San Francisco 1995 Any Space Between Shadows, evening-length work created in collaboration with the Bay View Opera House Youth Theater and Music Program; premiered at Theater Artaud, San Francisco

• Word of Mouth: It is a concert with words spoken by or about women from Mother Mary to the playwright Lorraine Hansberry.
• Woman Spelled This Way
• President's Daughter: This is the story of the offspring of Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemmings. It tries to explore the contrast between private behavior and public posturing.
• 3 Quartets for 4 and the Second is Two: It is story less performance for two couples and a four person corps dancing to Bach's F Minor's One and Two Harpsichord and number Five Minor music.
• Towards September : It is about the divine impulse behind artistic creation. It gives message about perils and pleasures of anti-social urges. It runs with the music ranging from church bells, groove and piano chords.
• Learning in Secret
• Dos Congio
• Approaching Thought: It displays acts of kindness and cruelty.
• Jokes That Can Get You Killed: It is a sarcastic play on current events, prejudices and phobias. It features animations of George Bush, Gavin Newsom and Anna Nicole Smith across a screen as Robert Moses and David Worm's score remixes screams and media absurdities like Don Imus.
• Reignforest: It is about human beings and the environment. Instead of just being ecological subject, it also shows how the ideologies and belief systems can reign over and suppress individuals with the forces affecting them.
• Lucifer's Prance: It is a dance performed for Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten. It consists contrasting impulses of stillness and turbulence.
• Blood in Time
• Deep River
• A Biography of Baldwin
• Solo Suite
• The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things: It is work that captures the first blush of attraction.
• Cause