There's a beautiful moment in Robert Moses' latest work "Nevabawarldapece" - which had its premiere Friday night at the Lam Research Theater in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - when the dancers shift from frenetic ricochets and lunges across the stage into an instant of stillness, with a thrust of the solar plexus like the beating of a heart the only movement. In a world of seemingly endless chaos and confrontation, it feels like a plea for a return to core principles.
At the heart of "Nevabawarldapece," the title of which sounds something like "never be a world of peace" if said out loud, is the urgent, pulsing energy contributed by live performances from the spoken-word artist Carl Hancock Rux, folk-"hip-Alachian" singer Laura Love and reggae-blues musician Corey Harris, who are onstage with the 10 dancers of Robert Moses' Kin.
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'Nevabawarldapece' review: Robert Moses Kin
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