Smooth Moves presented by Texture Contemporary Ballet

Smooth Moves opens with The Beauty of Flight, which was co-choreographed by Alan Obuzor and Kelsey Bartman and originally premiered in 2019. This piece starts with high energy, features the dazzling music of the Piano Guys, and the choreography ranges from powerful, beautiful, dramatic, athletic, and everything in between!

Texture is excited to bring in guest choreographer Henry Steele. Henry, who is originally from Wollongong, Australia, graduated from Point Park University, danced with Texture as a guest dancer for many seasons, and has also been a company dancer with Parsons Dance based out of NYC. Henry’s new work, Scala ad Caelum, which translates to stairway to heaven, is set to the stirring music of Ludovico Einaudi and Yoko Shimomura and explores how one might navigate their transition to their final destination.

​Closing this program is a new piece by Artistic Director Alan Obuzor, Jamie, set to the heartfelt music of Jamie Cullum. Mr. Cullum is an English jazz-pop singer & songwriter whose passion for life and storytelling is apparent in each of his songs and in the way that he performs. With the combination of Alan’s choreography and Cullum’s music, this piece will give snapshots of some of the universal stories that we all experience through our lives.

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*The New Hazlett Theater is fully wheelchair accessible. Assistive listening devices available upon request