Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug: Picnic

Enjoy five weeks of innovative dance as the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival returns to the spacious Ailey® Citigroup Theater at The Joan Weill Center for Dance on West 55th Street at Ninth Avenue. Kota Yamazaki and his riveting company Fluid hug-hug open the festival with two electrifying works—the world premiere of April-May-June and the New York premiere of Picnic…for men. April-May-June explores our ability to change personalities, emotions and gesture in mysterious, sometimes frightening, but always remarkable ways. Picnic…for men revisits an inspiration that came from what Yamazaki witnessed as a Japanese dancer visiting nightclubs in Chelsea in 1996. When different races and different cultures dance to a tight beat, a séance of solidarity appe