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Soles of Duende’s The Kitchen
New York City Center Studio 5
(excerpt from work-in-progress, with live music)
The Kitchen will be a full-evening dance work that unfolds through rhythm, ritual, and shared listening. Rooted in percussive movement traditions and live music, the piece explores how joy and friction coexist within acts of gathering, imagining the intimacy of shared meals and the intergenerational connections of family. For this showing, Soles of Duende will present excerpts from the work-in-progress: distilled moments that reflect the project’s evolving structure, musical relationships, and choreographic ingredients.
BRIAN BROOKS/MOVING COMPANY (guest)
Closing Distance is a 27-minute work for eight dancers set to the Pulitzer Prize-winning score by Caroline Shaw, Partita for Eight Voices. Originally commissioned by the University of Washington’s Meany Center for the Performing Arts supported by a Mellon Creative Artist Fellowship, this work premiered January 30, 2020. Enjoying its long-awaited return to the stage in 2026, Closing Distance will have its score performed live by the singing ensemble of the original work, “Roomful of Teeth”.
Jane Comfort and Company
“Only an Expert” is a short piece whose structure represents how quickly “experts” can muck things up. A soloist does a series of movements. An expert enters and makes adjustments to her process. Gradually, three more experts join the scene, each adding their own changes to the work. Chaos ensues.
LaTasha Barnes’ “The Look of Love” (guest)
Multi Bessie Award–winning LaTasha Barnes presents an excerpt for her full-length solo that reflects on how love has shaped her life. Performed with a live band, “The Look of Love” blends recorded voices from her chosen “Framily” into the soundscape, which Barnes experiences as a deeply embodied, physical sensation. Through Hip Hop, Swing, House, and Funk, she creates a heartfelt love letter to her influences—and a promise to those who came before her to love boldly and without fear.