Robert Moses' Kin: Norma Fong and Brendan Barthel

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Dance Reviews and Press Coverage for 'NEVABAWARLDAPECE'

'Nevabawarldapece' review: Robert Moses Kin
SFGate
by Mary Ellen Hunt
There's a beautiful moment in Robert Moses' latest work "Nevabawarldapece" when the dancers shift from frenetic ricochets and lunges across the stage into an instant of stillness, with a thrust of the solar plexus like the beating of a heart the only movement.
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Passion and Resonant Imagery From Robert Moses
San Francisco Classical Voice
by Janice Berman
Nevabawarldapece, a new, live dance-and-music-and-spoken-word extravaganza choreographed by RobertMoses, is fitfully brilliant yet ultimately as hard to read as its title.
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Dance: Robert Moses' Kin unveils 'Nevabawarldapece'
SF Bay Guardian
By Rita Felciano
In a pre-rehearsal conversation at the ODC Commons, choreographer Robert Moses says that his newest piece, Nevabawarldapece ("never be a world of peace"), is "a dance about protest movements."
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Press Release for 'NEVABAWARLDAPECE'

Robert Moses’ Kin (RMK) today announces the company’s 18th annual home season to feature the world premiere of NEVABAWARLDAPECE, a major collaborative project among Artistic Director Robert Moses, Obie and BESSIE award-winning writer and performer Carl Hancock Rux; Afro-Celtic, Folk-Funk, Hip-Appalachian vocalist Laura Love; MacArthur Fellow, blues musician, and composer Corey Harris; and former Meredith Monk lighting designer, Stanford faculty member, and visual designer Elaine Buckholtz. This power team of collaborators comes together to create NEVABAWARLDAPECE, a full-company work exploring critical moments of change in America’s liberation movements, insurrections, and revolts.

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Press Release for 'The By Series'

Moses’ Kin announces The BY Series, a new performance series and choreographic commissioning project, which this year features Robert Moses’ Kin dancing works by guest choreographers Molissa Fenley, Sidra Bell and Ramon Ramos Alayo. On the same program, the company will perform the world premiere of Robert Moses’ Scrubbing the Dog, exploring the renovation over time of historically racist iconography. Following RMK’s successful spring season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The BY Series offers Bay Area audiences two more weeks to see Robert Moses’ Kin. Performances are June 7 -10 and June 14-17. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at ODC Theater in San Francisco. For tickets and information, phone 415-863-9834 or go to www.odcdance.org/buytickets.
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ROBERT MOSES’ KIN PRESENTS
17TH ANNUAL HOME SEASON
MARCH 30-APRIL 1 AT NOVELLUS THEATER,
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Program to feature the World Premiere of Helen and excerpts from the forthcoming Scrubbing the Dog.

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DANCE REVIEWS & PRESS COVERAGE

Robert Moses Kin review: Sophisticated dance
San Francisco Chronicle
by Mary Ellen Hunt
Robert Moses' choreography not only moves you, it makes you want to move. A sexy jolt of the hips, a sinuous dip of the shoulders - as you watch the unfolding of his enigmatic "Helen," which premiered Friday night at the Yerba Buena Center season opener for Robert Moses' Kin, you might be thinking that you could steal a few of those moves next time you go out dancing.
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Robert Moses' Kin launches 'Iliad' mashup
San Francisco Examiner
New season: Norma Fong and Brendan Barthel appear in Robert Moses' Kin's 17th annual home program this weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The dancersroll, gesture and lunge to the audio landscape of writer and performer Carl Hancock Rux.
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Robert Moses' Kin Does it Again
Huffington Post
Well, attending a performance by Robert Moses' Kin is like packing several artistic forays into one evening. Known since 1995 for blending diverse traditions in dance -- including African, street, classical ballet and his own distinct choreographic ...
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Dance: Choreographers Robert Moses and Sean Dorsey discuss ...
San Francisco Bay Guardian
DANCE This weekend choreographers Robert Moses and Sean Dorsey present new dances. Moses' Helen, inspired by the myth of the beautiful Greek whose ...
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Teach the Children Well
Cincinnati CityBeat
Try mining them for more meaning and mixing them with modern dance. This seems like the most natural thing in the world for internationally recognized choreographer/artistic director Robert Moses. His Fable and Faith offers a multi-layered...
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Sense of family informs dancers
Cincinnati.com
His students from Stanford are participating in the American College Dance Festival in Modesto, two hours east of San Francisco, where his company – Robert Moses' Kin – is based. And his company is scrambling to get ready to leave for Cincinnati, ...
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Grant Awarded - RMK receives prestigious grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts for production and touring of RMK's newest work Fable & Faith.

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CBS choses RMK as one of the five best dance companies in SF
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Dance review Kin explores family in all its forms
By Sid Smith
Chicago Tribune, February 25, 2011
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Dance Stages: Faith and Fable
by Grier Cooper
Bay Stages
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Robert Moses' Kin review: An enchanted spell
by Allan Ulrich
San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, February 21, 2011

"Robert Moses' Fable and Faith proved one of the season's great charmers. The 11 dancers of Robert Moses' Kin and a host of collaborative artists have scrutinized the Western heritage of fairy tales and re-interpreted them with a pinch of irony and a huge helping of imagination."
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Dance Spring Highlights
by Amber Adrian
Theatre Bay Area
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Dance Insights of Multi-Faceted Modern Family Life
by D. Rane Danubian
ArtsSF.com
"Galjour spins their stories and conversations out brilliantly, touching also on themes of intolerance."
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Robert Moses' 'Cinderella' in San Francisco
by Allan Ulrich
San Francisco Chronicle
"Moses may have attempted nothing more ambitious than his latest opus, 'The Cinderella Principle: Try these on, see if they fit.'"
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Choreographer Robert Moses Unleashes a Gutsy Endeavor
by Greg Archer
Huffington Post
"The world premiere of the outing comes to life in San Francisco this week via the Robert Moses Kin contemporary dance company, a visually delicious beast that never comes short of dazzling the senses."
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CBS 5 Bay Sunday interview
with Robert Moses about
The Cinderella Principle
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It's a family affair for Robert Moses’ Kin
by Andrea Pflaumer
San Francisco Examiner
"Moses, whose San Francisco troupe is celebrating its 15th anniversary, is well-known for a willingness to tackle thorny social issues. But his ability to reframe the material on a more human scale is what has earned him a wide and appreciative audience."
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In Step: Marching in like a jackrabbit
by Ann Murphy
Inside Bay Area
"This weekend, elegant and provocative choreographer Robert Moses presents his company Robert Moses' Kin in his newest work, 'The Cinderella Principle.'"
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"Then and Now"
Sunday interview with Todd Reynolds
KALW San Francisco, 91.7 FM
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"Giving Voice" by Karen McKevitt
Theatre Bay Area Magazine

"This is such a beautiful notion of family," says Moses of the stories in the dance. When asked if The Cinderella Principle was an attempt to redefine family or offer a vocabulary to talk about difference, he clarifies, "I'm trying to give voice to these families."
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The Cinderella Principle: Anne Galjour
by Linda Ayres-Frederick
San Francisco Bay Times
"Award-winning solo performer and playwright Anne Galjour recently spoke with the SF Bay Times about the upcoming interdisciplinary work, The Cinderella Principle: Try these on, see if they fit. "
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ROBERT MOSES’ KIN ADDS TWO WORKS TO THE PROGRAM
FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
THE CINDERELLA PRINCIPLE
AT YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS FEB. 25 - 27

SAN FRANCISCO, January 27, 2010—The nationally acclaimed Robert Moses' Kin (RMK) contemporary dance company announced the addition of two works from the company repertoire, Hush and Toward September, to the program featuring the world premiere of The Cinderella Principle: Try these on, see if they fit, an hour-long work exploring non-traditional family structures. Three performances will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on February 25, 26 and 27 at 8 pm.

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Robert Moses' Kin's collaboratations

RMK presents its remarkable new multi-media work The Cinderella Principle, exploring identity and love in non-traditional families. The Cinderella Principle marks a significant new direction for the company, weaving text - based on family interviews by award-winning documentary playwright Anne Galjour - into the performance. Nationally recognized violinist/composer Todd Reynolds has created an original score and will be performing live with star beat boxer Kid Beyond . Video projections are created by Guggenheim fellow and Alpert Award winner Bill Morrison."

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San Francisco Chronicle
by Rachel Howard, September 14, 2008

Five Questions for Robert Moses - "San Francisco dance company Robert Moses' Kin has rocketed in national reputation recently, gaining notice for Moses' fast and furious, streetwise yet eloquent style and his bold way of exposing the hypocrisies of race and gender in America." read >>