“We Choose to Go to the Moon” Performance

When:
December 12, 2018 @ 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
2018-12-12T18:30:00-05:00
2018-12-12T19:30:00-05:00
Where:
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and G streets N.W.
Cost:
Free

WHAT:          “We Choose to Go to the Moon” performance

WHEN:          Wednesday, Saturday, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 15, 18

                        6:30–7:30 p.m.

                       

WHERE:       Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

                        Eighth and G streets N.W.

 

WHO:             Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company

The National Portrait Gallery will present “We Choose to Go to the Moon,” a performance by the museum’s resident Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company. Inspired by the Portrait Gallery’s “One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey” exhibition, which notably displays a portrait of the Apollo 8 astronauts, the performance reflects on America’s idealism around the space race, the mystery of the cosmos and the fragility of life.

“We Choose to Go to the Moon” was created in collaboration with NASA and includes sound bites from leading scientists and astronauts in addition to selections of pop culture music including “Stairway to Heaven” and “Fly Me to the Moon.” The title of the dance refers to a line from the 1962 speech by President John F. Kennedy about the national effort to land a man on the moon. This work was recently performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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