“Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth,” led by renowned choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham in collaboration with the musician Jlin, gives new life to Mozart’s final composition as a production that ponders ritual and mourning and celebrates transformation and resurrection.
In musical terms, a requiem is a piece played for a funeral mass.
“The concept for ‘Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth’ emerged from a period of personal grief for Abraham and his deep engagement with death and the afterlife that resulted,” according to a press release from Stanford Live.
Referring back to its roots as a funeral mass, “the piece is playing on these ideas of reincarnation and rebirth and death,” said Keerati Jinakunwiphat, one of 10 dancers performing in “Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth.”
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