Dancing History: Sankai Juku’s Umusuna at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Ushio Amagatsu a chorégraphié Meguri pour le quarantième anniversaire de Sankai Juku, une pièce profondément poétique au sous-titre évocateur : « Exubérance marine, tranquillité terrestre ». Une véritable offrande visuelle et spirituelle, à la beauté ineffable, à l’intensité désarmante.

Commissioned by Washington DC's Kennedy Center in the before-times, Mark Morris' Moon lands more ominously today than it surely did when it was conceived. But it still radiates joy.  

It's 33 years since its premiere in Brussels, and in its eighth season in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this irreverent American classic is still firing on all cylinders.

With choreographers like Ronald K. Brown and Kyle Abraham working with the company, the repertory might finally match the talents of the dancers.

Tamara Rojo's English National Ballet takes Akram Khan's version of Giselle, created on the company, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.