Dearest Home
About the Performance
Dearest Home is an intimate dance work focused on love, longing and loss. The work—created for six dancers as a series of solos, duets, and one trio—is a love letter to relationships, a meditation on memories, and ultimately, a source of healing.
- Choreography
- Kyle Abraham in collaboration with the company
- Music Composition
Jerome Begin
- Lighting & Set Design
Dan Scully
- Costume Design
Kyle Abraham
- Film
Carrie Schneider
- Recorded Score
Vivian Yau (vocals), Cyrus Beroukhim, Jennifer Choi, Wendy Lau, Danika Paskvan (musicians)
- Premiere Cast
Matthew Baker, Tamisha A Guy, Catherine Ellis Kirk, Marcella Lewis, Jae Neal
- Duration
- 70 minutes
- Premiere
- Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA (2017)
Support
Dearest Home was commissioned by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Hopkins Center for the Arts, and with a grant from The O’Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation. Additional generous support was provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Princess Grace Foundation-USA Special Project Grant, and The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Public support for Dearest Home was provided by The New York State Council on the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Dearest Home was developed during residencies at ASU Gammage, The Hopkins Center for the Arts, University Musical Society, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
