ATTITUDE

FEBRUARY 9-11, 2024
James K. Polk Theater, TPAC

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Known for its groundbreaking choreography, original music, and cross-disciplinary collaborations, Nashville Ballet’s Attitude program returns to TPAC February 9–11, 2024. Featuring three world premiere works by fan-favorite and flourishing choreographers, this compelling sampling of contemporary movement will include pieces by Resident Choreographer Mollie Sansone, Jermaine Spivey, and Yusha-Marie Sorzano set to live music performed by local Nashville musicians.

*Please note artists, performances, and dates are subject to change. Tickets are non-refundable.

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Friday, February 9, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
Speak
World Premiere
Choreographed by Nashville Ballet Resident Choreographer, Mollie Sansone
Speak is a physical representation of the metaphor 'getting on a soapbox.' It illuminates the many different relationships people have with their voice and how they express it. Some take advantage of their confident dispositions, for better or for worse, while others may not have such freedom or courage and are only victims of their circumstances. Some are simply searching for the right opportunity. Amidst the chaos and cacophony of opinions, perhaps we can step off of our soapboxes for just a moment to realize there might be a more conducive way to communicate and have every voice heard, no matter how loud or soft that voice may be.
In Many Ways
World Premiere
Choreographed by Jermaine Spivey
Stravinsky said once in an interview, "Music is an organization of tones, an act of the human mind."
He then went on to quote Arthur Schopenhauer, "And the musical tones inhabit and form a universe of their own, in which the human mind has created the materials and reduced them to order."
Creation, Organization, and Reduction. Those three words describe what, to me, feels like a human being. We go forward, then backward and forward again. We triumph, and we fail, and bounce back. We build, destroy, and rebuild. We are constantly moving because we must. In this work, we will choreograph a practice of embodiment of this trio of words and present our research as a vibrant and highly articulate performance of being alive.

Weep
World Premiere
Choreography by Yusha-Marie Sorzano
“...I'm left wondering if we are all just patchworks of the stories we've been told. What would it take - what does it take - for you to confront a false history, even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having to fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been? Just because something is difficult to accept doesn't mean you should refuse to accept it. Just because someone tells you a story doesn't make that story true.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America