Robert Moses' Kin (also known as RMK Dance Company) is an American dance company known for artistic and choreographic innovation. It is founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in 1995.
| Founded | 1995 in San Francisco Bay area, California |
|---|---|
| Founder | Robert Moses |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California , USA |
| Website | robertmoseskin |
Founder
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Before starting his own dance company, Robert Moses, the founder of the company, danced for many institutions like Twyla Tharp Dance, ODC/San Francisco, Long Beach Ballet, Walt Disney World Productions, and Gloria Newman Dance. Moses also works as faculty member at Stanford Dance Center.[1] He is also a guest teacher at many other schools and universities in bay area. He also composed dance for films and theaters like the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, New Conservatory Theater, Los Angeles Prime Moves Festival, Olympic Arts Festival, and Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century.[citation needed]
Style
editThe company performances are combination of athletic techniques, rhythmic complexity and gestural details. They are fusion of different styles and genres like jazz, light hip hop, gospel music and balletic movements. The company explores the issues of race, gender, class and other social topics like biographies.[citation needed]
Performances
edit- Word of Mouth: It is a concert with words spoken by or about women from Mother Mary to the playwright Lorraine Hansberry.[2]
- Woman Spelled This Way[3]
- President's Daughter: This is the story of the offspring of Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. It tries to explore the contrast between private behavior and public posturing.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6]
- Learning in Secret
- Dos Congio[5]
- Approaching Thought: It displays acts of kindness and cruelty.[6]
- 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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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[5]
Awards
edit- Awards for the NEA
- Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Choreography[8]
- Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award
- San Francisco Bay Guardian "Goldie"
- San Francisco Weekly "Black Box" Award.
References
edit- ^ Howard, Rachel (September 14, 2008). "Five Questions for Robert Moses". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012.
- ^ Claybough, Lisa (February 2, 2002). "Robert Moses' KIN - Word of Mouth - Review". criticaldance.com. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011.
- ^ Singer, Toba (February 9, 2007). "Robert Moses' Kin - 'Woman Spelled This Way'". Ballet-Dance Magazine. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ^ Howard, Rachel (February 19, 2008). "Moses focuses on style over substance". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 3, 2008.
- ^ a b c Howard, Rachael (February 19, 2005). "Moses troupe marks decade of daring dance". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on April 21, 2006.
- ^ a b c Howard, Rachel (September 20, 2008). "Robert Moses' Kin at Yerba Buena". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
- ^ Shulgold, Marc (September 24, 2008). "Choreographing a reign of destruction in Robert Moses' 'Reignforest'". The Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008.
- ^ "Honors & Awards". Stanford News. May 2, 2007. Archived from the original on July 31, 2011.