NFT Dance & Company Present NOC-tURNE As Part Of The Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival 10 Year Anniversary

NFT Dance & Company will be a part of the two weeks of performing and visual arts that celebrate the diversity, energy, and excellence of artists and audiences from DC and beyond.

NFT Dance & Company will present three new works intimately woven in contemporary dance and inspired by the classical literary beginning, "It was a dark and stormy night ... " Dreamy, fantastical and romantic, literary figures depict our psychic fascination with things that go bump in the night and the macabre.

I. XENOMORPHIA
Inspired by the works of H.R. Giger, Swiss painter and genius extraordinaire, it is an intimate examination of the artists' relationship to his works. At first, seemingly dark and macabre, it examines the sensual, and yet primal or visceral, nature of love, birth, and mortality; it is also a reflection on the human involvement with technology and how it has transformed/victimized our humanity. This is a section of a much larger ballet and a preview thereof.

II. NEVAR-MORE
A depiction of the iconic poem, "The Raven," by Edgar A. Poe, "NEVAR-MORE" will take a look at the "true" identity of this mysterious, late-night visitor. A psychologically driven, fantastical, and dream-like interpretation, "NEVAR-MORE will create a dual-reality of both Poe and his masterpiece - artist and his art.

III. THE BLACK ROSE
"The Black Rose" is a neo-Gothic contemporary ballet that looks at "moral pollution." It takes the audience through a fairy tale-like journey that is steeped in romance, death, and ritual. What does it take to lift moral pollution?

The Black Rose was also made into a dance film project, which will be submitted for dance film festivals in 2019. It features local Washington Ballet dancers Oscar Jorge Sanchez and Nicole Graniero.