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Rennie Harris’ hip- hop ‘Heaven’

Apr 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Reviews

photo by BRIAN MENGINI Michelle “Crykit” Kolnik (left) and Emiko Sugiyama in Rennie Harris Puremovement’s “Heaven.” The narrative is entwined with the story of “The Rite of Spring,” in which a young virgin is sacrificed. By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer Heaven, Rennie Harris Puremovement’s new hip-hop work for the Philadelphia International Festival of the [...]



PIFA REVIEW: Heaven – Rennie Harris and Puremovement

Apr 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Reviews

by Tiffany Ashton for The Dance Journal Rennie Harris’s Heaven invites you to a masterfully-crafted and twisted love story, performed by a chorus of disturbingly deviant B-girls and a handful of unsuspecting B-boys.  The B-girl ballet was set to Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”, but mirrored it only in that a sacrifice was made at the [...]