Sky Arte's 'Dance – Perché balliamo' Explores Group Movement with Top Choreographers

The episode of 'Dance – Perché balliamo' airing Monday, May 20 on Sky Arte, directed by choreographer Akram Khan, investigates the ancestral impulse to dance in groups. The program features performances by leading choreographers in diverse locations: Lil Buck performs jooking (a street dance from Memphis) on a Los Angeles skyscraper rooftop; Litefeet Crew explores hip-hop roots in the New York subway; Alex Mugler, matriarch of the House of Mugler, discusses voguing and how the stage saved her. Sharon Eyal describes how club music and group dancing inspired her work. At Dia Foundation Gallery in New York, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud use the dance floor as research terrain, blending new movements with classical dance. Boris Charmatz stages a large-scale choreography involving hundreds of people at a disused airfield in Berlin.