Black Moon September 15, 2011

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), NYC’s foremost progressive dance education
and performance center, announces a one-of-a-kind opener to the organization’s DNA PRESENTS 2011-2012
Season. Black Moon (La Lune Noir) Act I, presented by collaborating artists Monstah Black and Major Scurlock,
fuses a score of Afrobeat and house music with spoken word from Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and
significant poems by Langston Hughes and Albert Giraud. The world premiere of this eclectic seven-scene African-
American theatrical adventure dives into topics of what it means to be a black artist during a special time of
American history with the nation’s first black president. The two-night premiere takes place September 15–16,
8:00 p.m.