Esmé Boyce Dance is pleased to announce the premiere of Moss and Other Things, choreographed by Esmé Julien Boyce.

Moss and Other Things is a piece about the coexistence of conflicting experiences. It is about the joy of your child laughing and the simultaneous grief of a loved one lost; going to the park on perfect afternoons knowing war is ravaging families across oceans; humor and rage bubbling up next to each other. It explores the moments of transcendence in which we move between the everyday and the vast unknown. This work pulls its aesthetic language from a recent trip to Iceland in which Boyce wandered lava fields in which soft vibrant moss grew on the hardened, cooled molten core of the earth, the calm evidence of the Earth’s explosive power.

Choreography + Direction by Esmé Julien Boyce

Performance by Ching-I Chang, Esmé Julien Boyce, Caroline Fermin, Pierre Guilbault, Cori Kresge

Music Composition by Cody Boyce, Dreamt Dreamer, Eleanor Hovda, and Hope Littwin

Costume Design by Sue Julien and Esmé Julien Boyce

Set Design by Kit Boyce