A a | a B : B E N D

A a | a B : B E N D is a glitch in the matrix. The brainchild of acclaimed choreographer Aszure Barton and eminent trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire, this large-scale dance piece remixes ballet with vogue, jazz with electronica, analog with digital. Responding to a live score composed and performed by Akinmusire, hooded figures fire in and out of unison like nodes in a network. B E N D amplifies the circular dialogue between dance and music, transforming the theatre into an alternate universe. ?It?s magical. You can?t take your eyes off it. And you can?t get enough of this declaration of love for being together, which continually invents new patterns to explain itself? [In B E N D] the soul finds enough air to listen carefully.? ?tanznetz.