Prior Presents

The Tony-nominated choreographer, known for co-directing Fire Shut Up In My Bones with the Metropolitan Opera (2021) and choreographing Alicia Keys’ musical Hell’s Kitchen (2023), explores Black joy in a new work with her own dance company.

A commissioning and recording project from Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman, This is America celebrates our country’s rich cultural imaginary, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through any singular, dominant point of view.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a New York Times-bestselling essayist and poet. Her environmentally attuned work explores how we live in a world she finds rich with wonder.