Paul Kolnik
Repertory
The Pleasure of the Lesson
COMPANIES
CHOREOGRAPHER
WORLD PREMIERE
Lincoln Center, 2014
MUSIC
Original music by Robert Moses and David Worm
COSTUMES
Jon Taylor
LIGHTING
Al Crawford
RUN TIME
22 minutes
Award-winning choreographer Robert Moses’ first work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings arresting visuals, a seductive score, and sensual movement for 10 dancers. Moses' choreography has been described by The Huffington Post as “a visually delicious beast that never comes short of dazzling the senses.”
Paul Kolnik
Paul Kolnik
Paul Kolnik
Robert Moses’ new Lesson is a pleasure…Tightly focused, The Pleasure of the Lesson finds its subject in the space between the sexes…a delicate dance in which the lightest touch produces arousal, and electricity travels through the body in waves… The Pleasure of the Lesson is well worth a visit this week.
The pleasures lay in…a beautiful underwater softness here, percussive punch and whiplash speed there.
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