Hanover

Michael Brown. Christian Taylor. Jerame Reid. Three from a whole cascade of names that feel from offstage to the floor of Hanover’s Schauspielhaus. What they all have in common (or more precisely: what they had in common) can be seen in three portraits in the stage background: Black men who were killed by U.S. police officers a decade ago. Anti-racist protests ensued, which largely remained without consequence. With Meditation Reprise, choreographer Kyle Abraham and ten dancers put their finger on the wound: a moving and poignant requiem, never maudlin, highly political. The fact that it is having its world premiere in Germany, first at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, and just days later at the Real Dance festival in Hanover, shows how things stand. In Trump's USA, despite the ICE attacks, ...