Dedicated Email - Friday - 11/15/2024 - Tennessee Performing Arts Center - 21 Yeses

In 21 Yeses, New Dialect plays with hi-grade electricity, the presence of absence, and the geometries of choreography to encounter light as a sentient form of movement and darkness itself as an action, a vast stillness.  

The premiere of this newly expanded and unique evening-length production features novel lighting and production design by Nashville’s Michael Brown (Bon Iver) to create an experience where motion and light capture and release one another inside the awe of an endless distance. 

Inspired by Hannah Emerson’s poem, “Center of the Universe,” choreographer and founder of New Dialect, Banning Bouldin, and a team of dancers created 21 Yeses around saying “yes.” 

TPAC’s co-presentation of New Dialect’s 21 Yeses is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Tennessee Arts Commission. 

21 YESES 

NOV 22-24 

TPAC’s Johnson Theater