E-Moves Festival: A Movement
The critically acclaimed E-Moves Festival: A Movement will close out the season at Harlem Stage with leading choreographers, including Bebe Miller and Eiko Otake, featuring Dancing in History’s Long Shadow: Talks and Screenings with Dancers and Choreographers of Color, curated by Ronald K. Alexander and Dr. JuYeon Ryu. This year’s festival will add a holistic wellness component for all ages with movement and yoga classes, meditation, healthy food and beverage offerings, and wellness workshops and screenings for the community.
THU, MAY 8 - FRI, MAY 9 | 7PM
The Bebe Miller Company makes its Harlem Stage debut with an evening that celebrates the company’s 40 years of creating exquisite physical language to explore the human condition. In a new ensemble work Indifferent Forest (2025), learnings from the forest inspire new approaches to interdependence and dancing on shared ground. Two powerful solos from Miller’s canon of work Rain (1989) and Rhythm Studies (1999), express Miller’s faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and beauty. Photo by Andrea Mohin-Tether.
FRI, JUN 13 – SAT, JUN 14 I 7PM ET
E-Moves presents the premiere of SOAK, a place-specific work created at Harlem Stage by interdisciplinary artists Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones. It was with Jones in 2017, that Otake started her ongoing The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable, an evolving series of experiments in collaboration. In their new work SOAK, they explore water as a shared origin, and the body as rivers of memories. Drawing upon their singular and dynamic history of collaboration, they collide toward many tomorrows.