Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company presentsVectors: a work celebrating kinetic sculptor George Rickey

Tickets: $40
Kreeger Museum Members: $35

The performance will take place in the Great Hall at 4:30pm. Please join us immediately after the performance for a post-performance discussion with Dana Tai Soon Burgess, followed by an outdoor reception to view George Rickey’s Two Lines Oblique Down III.

Set within the Great Hall of The Kreeger Museum, this dance transforms the experience of viewing George Rickey’s kinetic sculpture into a living dialogue between steel, wind, architecture, and the human body. Rickey’s precisely balanced forms—activated by the slightest breeze—become both inspiration and point of departure, their quiet rotations echoed in the dancers’ fluid spirals, suspended balances, and sweeping pathways. Celebrated for their graceful, wind-driven motion, Rickey’s sculptures blur the line between engineering and choreography.

Dana Tai Soon Burgess’s choreography unfolds in the museum, allowing audiences to encounter movement inspired by sculpture. The performance invites visitors to experience Rickey’s work as part of a broader dialogue between visual art and dance, where themes of motion, balance, and transformation resonate across multiple spaces. Rooted in Burgess’s long history of creating works in museums, the choreography dissolves the boundaries between performer, artwork, architecture, and viewer.

Together, movement and art create a poetic conversation in which space, perception, and the human experience continually reshape one another. The performance is followed by a talk with Dana Tai Soon Burgess and a wine reception.