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 ap