Robert Moses' Kin

About Robert Moses...
Artistic Director, Robert Moses founded Robert Moses' Kin in 1995 and has since created numerous works of varying styles and genres for his highly praised dance company. Creating work that speaks to our times, Moses' dances are a powerful combination of athletic technique, rhythmic complexity and gestural detail. He explores topics ranging from oral history in African-American culture to the life and work of author James Baldwin; he explores the isolation found in new love and the dark side of contemporary urban life as well as the simple, joyous expressions of pure movement. The company has appeared at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, Columbia College in Chicago and produces a home season every year in San Francisco.

Moses and his company have been honored with many prestigious grants and awards including, a National Dance Project commission for "The President's Daughter" which will be eligible for fee support for the 2006-2007 season; two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards; the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award; a San Francisco Bay Guardian 'Goldie' and the SF Weekly Black Box Award. Prior to establishing Robert Moses' Kin, Moses danced in Twyla Tharp Dance, ODC/San Francisco, Long Beach Ballet, Walt Disney World Productions and Gloria Newman Dance Theater, among others. A much sought-after teacher, Moses has been a lecturer at Stanford University since 1995 and teaches ongoing technique classes at San Francisco Dance Center. He has been a master teacher or guest faculty at the Bates Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Texas, Mills College and American College Dance Festival and has created commissioned works for Oakland Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, England's Transitions Dance Company at the Laban Centre, Dance Exchange in London and many others.

Selected Repertoire
The President's Daughter (2005)
Sound: Text and live music

Cause ( 2004)
Sound: Text - spoken word poets

other gods (2004)
Music: Georgs Pelecis

Biography (2003)
Sound: Excerpts from 1961 discussion with James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Emile Capouya and Alfred Kazin.

3 Quartets for 4 and the Second is 2 (2001)
Music: J.S. Bach, Concerto for One and Two Harpsichords, No. 5 in F minor

Lucifer's Prance (2000)
Music: Philip Glass, The Window of Appearances, from Akhnaten, Act I: iii and Funeral of Amenhotep III, Akhnaten Act 1: i

Doscongio (1997)
Music: Frederic Chopin, Sonata for Cello and Piano

A complete list of repertoire with further details on the works is available upon request.

Residency activities include post-performance discussion, lecture demonstrations and master classes.

For more detailed information on Robert Moses' Kin, please visit the artist's own website: www.robertmoseskin.org

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"...Whirlwinds of movement where everyone is kin."
-New York Times
"Local treasure Robert Moses, with his dance company, Kin, not only creates some of the most gorgeous movement on stage anywhere, but also is committed to tackling ideas of race, class, culture and gender, and he does so successfully."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"... a program of great originality and theatrical power that combines contemporary dance, music, poetry and formidable spiritual and intellectual fervor. Moses' work, and the splendid dancing of his company, is nothing short of electrifying."
-Chicago Sun Times

"With Lucifer's Prance the choreographer has brought together his taut, sculptural impulse with his lyrical and spiritual drive and crafted a dance of haunting beauty, musical subtlety and great emotional depth."
-Dance Magazine