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COMPAGNIE KÄFIGRécitalFriday, July 1 & Saturday, July 28 pm • The Moore Theater Click to download PROGRAM NOTES Post-performance discussion with company members, The Moore Theater All the moves are there: breaking, spinning, locking and popping, but the all-male French troupe Käfig has polished hip-hop into a dazzling choreography of “precision and rigor...[in this] stunning work” (The New York Times). Founded and directed by circus-trained Mourad Merzouki, this ingenious company merges street culture with high art, techno beat-box rhythms with North African flourishes, b-boy moves with ballet. In Récital, Merzouki creates a synthesis of divergent worlds, a hip-hop concerto, a surreal theatrical experience with exquisite lighting, novel score and dance so original it really has no name. It's an experiment in dance with “spectacular feats...a new strain of hip-hop—beautiful and meditative” (Dance Magazine). This performance is supported in part by AFAA (Association Française d'Action Artistique) and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. |
 “Käfig... takes a hip-hop ethos onto an elevated plane of abstraction... blazingly displayed.”The New York Times Intermediate Level Dance Master Class with KäfigSaturday, July 2 • 2 pm |
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