FATHER ABSENCE | MOTHER MA

For the company's 10-year anniversary in 2024, Kizuna Dance premiered a deeply personal work by Artistic Director Cameron McKinney. A way of processing his father’s death in 2022 – a man he never met -- FATHER ABSENCE | MOTHER MA brings a hyperphysical focus to the Japanese concept of “ma,” or possibilities inherent in the empty spaces between objects and bodies. Through a movement language that blends streetdance styles, capoeira, and contemporary floorwork, the work explores the multiversity of loss and feelings of being left behind.