Robert Moses’ KIN presents
The Kennings, 30th Anniversary Home Season
March 14-16, 2025
on Z Space’s Steindler Stage
Robert Moses' latest work, The Kennings, integrates dance, dance-theater, theater, and music, showcased through Moses's signature approach: exploring themes of sensuality, war, race, human rights, and individual freedoms with energetic choreography and profound emotional depth.
The text and movement of The Kennings are a compound of accounts hidden over time by artists sentenced to an "Artist Gulag." These muted retellings, echo like barks from a kennel of the dead, are haunting, possessing a spectral quality. The utterances, poetically metaphorical, hint at profound loss endured.
The Kennings features 11 dancers and is marked by a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries and fostering a dialogue on shared experiences. serving as a meditation on the emotional, societal, racial, political, and gender-oriented expectations placed on all of us, with a specific focus at times on the experiences of Black men and African American diasporic concerns. For Moses, the most direct way to effect social change and meaningful human interaction is by characterizing society through the movement and spoken word. This work seeks to engage audiences with a sense of shared community, exploring the communal struggle for understanding, love, and the profound loss of both.
Complementing the premiere of The Kennings, RMK presents three original works choreographed by three renowned artists: Loni Landon & Yayoi Kambara, Nol Simonse, and Megan & Shannon Kurashige. Each piece features a collaboration between a composer and a writer, resulting in dynamic and multi-disciplined works. These collaborations showcase the creative vision of each choreographer, composer, and writer, pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance and exploring diverse artistic perspectives. These triptychs are presented as part of RMK's "New Legacies: One Acts" series, a platform for emerging and established voices in contemporary dance.
Robert Moses’ KIN 2025 Cast:
Jenelle Gaerlan
Kai Hannigan
SiQi He
Julian Hernandez
Z Jackson
Eden Magana
Teddy O’Brien
Giovanna Sales
Giulia Sales
Ava Shannon
Mitch Stone
