Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  New York City

Start Date:

  2/27/2026

End Date:

  2/28/2026

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Feb 27 at 7:30pm and Feb 28 at 2pm & 7:30pm

SOULSKIN Dance and Maffei Dance Company present an evening of stories in motion, exploring personal realities and divergent perceptions at a time when distortion is at odds with truth. Choreographers Adrianna Thompson and JoLea Maffei create a world of transmutation - where movement reveals psychological landscapes and divergent perceptions. Witness a melange of energies merging into one night of visceral expression, where audiences decide what is truth versus distortion.

SOULSKIN Dance performs 2 world premieres. "Blinded" transforms the stage into a mirror of political unrest exposing the disillusionment of democracy. "Unpredictable Encounters" balances intimacy with unpredictability, capturing how we move in a fractured world. The work is set to a newly commissioned score that fuses lyrical echoes with electronic undertones, guiding audiences through the fragile yet transformative nature of human connection.

MAFFEI DANCE Company also performs 2 world premieres. "Through Time and Again" explores the conversation between Baroque structure and contemporary spontaneity, through the Gamba music of composer Carl Friedrich Abel recorded by modern day gamba maestro Paolo Pandolfo. In counterpoint, composer Eran Fink responds to the gamba's ancient voice through shifting rhythms and harmonic play with a driving contemporary electronic groove. A reflection on sound across time: the old and the new intertwine, challenge, and echo one another. "Rainwalker" is inspired by the inner worlds of the short stories of Zeph Ellis Maffei and ponders the human tendency toward the nature of repetition - and the moments when those patterns become destructive. Through spoken text, percussion, and movement, the piece merges the literal and the abstract, the real and the fantastical.

https://www.soulskindance.org/

Location:

  Ailey Citigroup Theater

Room:

Address:

  405 West 55th Street

Phone:

City:

  New York

State/Province:

  NC