Today, we’re taking a look at the joy-filled choreography by Kevin Jenkins. Excerpts from his Still Waters piece popped up in my YouTube feed a few times before I finally took the time to watch it, and I found it completely hypnotic. Once I started exploring his work, I discovered I loved his individual and pairs choreography every bit as much as his stunning group work.

Jenkins’s work has been called “riveting,” and I can’t disagree. Even in his most graceful, lyrical pieces, there are subtle tics and twitches, hints to the choreographer’s quirky personality. I find these little breaks completely charming and very recognizable. It makes me wonder if his teachers tried to beat those little twitches and spasms out of him. I’m glad they weren’t successful.

“Every second of the minute-and-a-half-long Snap, Pop. is riveting. It’s carefully and fluidly danced, but you never know when a tiny, silly movement will make you giggle.”

– Kara Hanlon, Dance Magazine

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