Former Parsons dancer and exceptionally talented choreographer Mayte Natalio is the recipient of this season’s Parsons Dance GenerationNow Fellowship, an award allowing her to create a work on our company. We're excited to share more about her work. The piece draws its narrative from two powerful sources: Do not go gentle into that good night, the treasured Dylan Thomas poem about defying death, and Pale Blue Dot, the compelling book by Carl Sagan whose title references a 1990 photograph of earth taken by Voyager 1 before it exited our solar system.
Mayte says that, in creating the piece, she “combines these mighty messages as she seeks to explore the profound smallness and fragility of our planet; the strength of humanity, the urgency of now; and the lasting resonance of Thomas’ defiance and Sagan’s awe.” Embracing this narrative direction, the work is set to a commissioned score by award-winning composer Daniel Kluger, celebrated for his genre-defying compositions incorporating bluegrass, jazz, neoclassical, and electronic styles that surface in such recently acclaimed shows as the 2019 Broadway revival of Oklahoma and the 2024 hit Oh Mary. Stay tuned to learn more about the work as it develops in the months ahead!