The American land

World Premiere

Choreographer: Yoshito Sakuraba

Music: Shakespeare Sonnet 154 read by Bohdan Poraj, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Philip Band & LeAnn Rimes, Joe Thwaites, Hammond Bennett

The new work ‘The American Land’ is an ironic piece about farmers facing the burgeoning future and apocalypse as a consequence of soil erosion-as some experts say the Earth will run out of usable topsoil that causes massive crop production cuts. The work is mixed with a hint of narrative imagery idiotically and awaits its moment to erupt. The work's last track uses the voice of Hammond Bennett, who created the Soil Conservation Service in the 1930s to counter the effects of the Dust Bowl. "We Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people, barbaric or civilized."