Choreographer Lemi Ponifasio and his dance company MAU performed the US premiere of their acclaimed work Requiem in New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in August.
Requiem is choreographed for 20 dancers, and has been staged in Salzburg, Vienna, at the Southbank Centre in London, the ASB Theatre and Aotea Centre in Auckland and the Royal Flemish Opera House in Brussels.
Requiem combines movement, chant and spoken word with striking architectural and lighting elements that invite the audience to participate in a shared experience of what it means to be human and a part of the cycle of nature – of birth, death, and renewal.
As a tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the show included comprised artists from across the Pacific, along with lighting by renowned light artist Helen Todd, Pacific chants and bone flutes.
