FKA twigs to Carry out One-Off Dance Piece at Martha Graham Dance Corporate Gala

FKA twigs will carry out Martha Graham’s 1932 solo dance piece Satyric Pageant Tune at this yr’s Martha Graham Dance Corporate gala in New York. FKA twigs is likely one of the dance corporate’s 3 annual honorees, identified for her “unique, interdisciplinary, and groundbreaking paintings in tune and artwork.” The gala takes position on April 18 at New York Town Middle.

Janet Eilber, the dance corporate’s inventive director, stated in a press liberate:

Twigs is anyone I’ve lengthy admired as an artistic power and change-maker, so we had been extremely joyful to find her private interactions with our social media posts. We slid into her DMs to let her know that we would have liked to honor her as one among as of late’s most tasty inventive innovators. That virtual alternate impressed the theory of a efficiency by means of twigs IRL of Graham’s solo Satyric Pageant Tune. How suitable that Martha’s quirky, sassy solo, which each mocked and celebrated her personal inventive fearlessness, must be inhabited by means of one among as of late’s personal multifaceted and charismatic trailblazers. We’re delighted to have twigs onstage for our annual Gala, April 18, which additionally occurs to be the Corporate’s 98th birthday!

The gala may also function performances of Graham’s 1984 dance The Ceremony of Spring and 1990’s Maple Leaf Rag, with tune by means of Scott Joplin and costumes by means of Calvin Klein. This yr’s different honorees are Dr. Donna E. Shalala and Adriene Holder.

Final month, FKA twigs featured on UK dance duo Two Shell’s unmarried “Communicate to Me.” She stars along Invoice Skarsgård in Rupert Sanders’ remake of the 1994 film The Crow, which were given its first trailer previous final month.

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