Around the United States, Kyle Marshall Choreography continues to unveil their powerful Julius Eastman Trilogy, which honors love, liberation, queerness, and the legacy of Eastman and his music.
On November 24, 2024, Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC) premieres Gay (set to Gay Guerrilla) and revives Joan (set to The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Gay is a duet on eternal love, featuring performers Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez and Khalid Dunton, with Adam Tendler and Richard Valitutto on piano.
Joan premiered at the Gardner in 2019, and its revival features performers Justin Daniels, Kellye Smith, Sydney Worth, and Taína Lyons, forming a quartet of victory over tyranny, with live music by Seth Parker Woods on cello and the Castle of our Skins cello ensemble. Opening the performance is JIJI's arrangement of Eastman's Touch Him When for electric guitar. Both Seth Parker Woods and JIJI have recently recorded these works as part of their band Wild Up's ongoing anthology of Julius Eastman's music for New Amsterdam Records; Seth Parker Woods' multitrack recording of Joan has been nominated for a GRAMMY in the category of Best Instrumental Classical Solo.
KMC also give the New York City premiere of Joan on January 11, 2025 at BAM's Fisher Hillman Studio, as part of the Out-FRONT! Festival.
The dance company's first full evening work is set to Julius Eastman's 1974 masterpiece Femenine. It premieres on March 20, 2025 at Drew University. Performers Khalid Dunton, Alex Francois, Niara Hardister, Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez, Catherine Kirk and Kyle Marshall embody Eastman's minimalist score to celebrate the spectrum of divine femininity and Eastman's own life.
KMC's Femenine is a recipient of a 2024 National Dance Project Grant from the New England Foundation of the Arts and a National Performance Network Creation Grant. These grants will support the development, community engagement and touring of Femenine through 2026.
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