LOVE HEALS ALL WOUNDS
MOVEMENT ART IS: Jon Boogz + Lil Buck
LOVE HEALS ALL WOUNDS
World premiere: May 22, 2019, UCLA Royce Hall
This work is no longer touring. See more information here.
On a daily basis, we are bombarded by brutal 24-hour news cycles that reveal the world's inhumane realities, the relentless social media updates and a slew of misguided microaggressions that construct a fabricated value in our lives.
Love Heals All Wounds delves past headlines to explore the heartstrings of our shared consciousness in relation to police brutality, mass incarceration and why the cycle of trauma needs to end. MAI’s evening-length dance performance is interwoven with spoken word, original music and projections to chart a movement towards reflection, growth and healing through sharing the dreams and visions of a world we create together. A Netflix documentary series MOVE featuring the creative process and performance excerpts of Love Heals All Wounds was released in October 2020.
Co-created and directed by MAI: Jon Boogz and Lil Buck
Spoken Word Poetry by Robin Sanders
Choreographed and performed by MAI, with Marcus Battle, Nao Campbell, Reimy Jones, Trent Mendoza, Ron Myles, Alexa Nof, Quentin Robinson, Olga Sokolova, and composer/violinist Jason Yang
Dramaturg: Talvin Wilks
Writer/Creative Director: Robin Sanders
Original Music: Jason Yang
Projection Design: Lianne Arnold
Lighting Design: John E. D. Bass
Costume Design: Yöggx and Castille Ritter
Rehearsal Director: Reimy Jones
Assistant Choreographer: Nao Campbell
Costume Construction: Abby Stroot & Pincushion Las Vegas
Additional Music: Chizzy, DBR, Parker & Marshall Mulherin, and Izzy Beats
Featured Voice Narration: Bryan Stevenson
Production Director: Chisa Yamaguchi
Producers: Rika Iino, Jon Boogz, Lil Buck
Executive Producers: Jody and John Arnhold
Love Heals All Wounds was produced by Rika Iino, Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, in partnership with Sozo Impact Inc., with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Quiet Fund; Under the Rose Foundation; Jody and John Arnhold; and MHCS; and workshopped at Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts in Northridge, CA. Special thanks to Executive Producer Jody and John Arnhold, and Associate Producers Steven Raider-Ginsburg and Candace Feldman.