PS21 returns to Crellin Park Day with an interactive program featuring 846, a retelling of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

846 reimagines Stravinsky’s seminal work in our present-day USA. The 1913 score depicts rituals celebrating the advent of spring, after which a young girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death. 846 reflects upon our “everyday” filled with love, loss, appropriation, fear, and judgment, and interrogates our nation’s compulsion with sacrificing Black bodies in order to thrive.

A PS21 Creative Residency

In addition to their Crellin Park Day performance, the Jamal Jackson Dance Company were in residency for a week-long outreach program with participants from Hudson-based urban youth organizations Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center and Perfect Ten Hudson, and in partnership with the Sylvia Center.

Participants integrate traditional Malian movement, a practice deeply connected to the earth, and dama, the masked dance rituals practiced by the Dogon people of Mali and Burkina Faso, with contemporary dance techniques to impart self-confidence, discipline, and communication. Company members and students will perform their new dances and percussion compositions.