Founded in 1995 in San Francisco, Robert Moses’ KIN has long used dance to address race and culture, sometimes with hope and sometimes with anger and sadness.
Samuel Melecio-Zambrano and Crystaldawn Bell rehearsing “The Soft Solace of a Slightly Descended Lost Life ” by Robert Moses. Robert Moses, founder and artistic director of the KIN dance company, says of his forthcoming premiere: “It’s about the things that are in the title — ‘The Soft Solace of a Slightly Descended Lost Life ’ — as a black man, as a black artist that you run into over the course of your life.
As for the parenthetical phrase in the dance’s title, Moses says: “The ‘Suck It’ in the title is about life being what that sounds like — there is a middle finger. At some point you can’t suck out any more life. The life that you have and the way you live it is the sucker that keeps moving you forward.”
“The Soft Solace” made its online debut in June 2021. But the version premiering April 1-3 at the Presidio Theatre features expanded choreography, while retaining both the text and music that Moses wrote and composed himself.Navigating the transition from a two dimensional screen to a live performance, as well as the unstable lives of performing artists during the pandemic, has required revised choreography, says Moses. “If one dancer leaves it changes the chemistry of the group.
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