Beyond Ballet, Beyond Hip-Hop

PS21 2024 Season Launch Party

Friday, May 17
6pm, PS21 members only dinner party
8pm, Beyond Ballet, Beyond Hip-Hop (Japan), a double-bill performance:  The Dying Swan and Its Cause of Death and Encounter

$35 (performance only)
Get Tickets HERE

PS21 Pavilion Theater
2980 Route 66
Chatham, NY 12037

Celebrated Japanese ballerina Hana Sakai dances the timeless Fokine classic, then plunges into visionary playwright/director Toshiki Okada’s comic unraveling of the motif, plodding, wobbling, and musing aloud about why she, the swan, has to die and what it’s like to dance the part. Udai Shika accompanies with Saint-Saëns’Le Cygne for solo cello in this hilarious mashup from chelfitsch Theater Company that also raises timely environmental issues. 

With

Moto Takahashi’s all-woman dance group, MWMW, performing Encounter, challenging gender norms with their stunning hip-hop technique and ensemble movements.