Known for their ballet choreography of musicians like David Bowie and Metallica, co-artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson will delight their audience this season via a ballet of Kravitz’s music entitled “Love Rocks.” “Love Rocks” utilizes the full company of 18 dancers and Bach 25 is a ballet choreographed to the music of Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as part of Program A. In Bach 25, the company moves to the dramatic compositions of the Baroque period. An era that saw an explosion of new musical styles that introduced the concerto, sonata and opera. This will take place in both part one and part two of the program.

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Program B will feature “Woke,” a socially conscious one act ballet examining social consciousness in the present political climate. As well as offering “Essential Parts” a compilation of repertory favorites.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s opened its season at the Joyce Theatre on Tuesday, January 21 and will run through Sunday, February 2nd. Beginning with Bach 25 and premiering Lenny Kravitz’s “Love Rocks.”

Source: People of Note: Lenny Kravitz Music Part of Complexions Ballet