Photo by Fabian Hammerl

*Please note: This production features atmospheric smoke, fog, or haze. Audience discretion is advised.

Part of the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance

Aszure Barton and Ambrose Akinmusire were inevitable collaborators—both deeply interested in the nature of energy: how it moves, how it lands, how it fills a space. In A a | a B : BEND, two visionaries come together to create an intimate yet wildly provocative world where music and dance coexist onstage, embracing human friction, tension, and explosive beauty. Akinmusire performs live; his trumpet playfully provoking and shaping Barton’s unruly choreography in real time. Two artists push against each other to create a powerful cosmic refuge for the senses, oscillating between up-close and personal to vastly distanced and massive, full of puzzling beauty and raw, physical emotion.

 

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