The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe, Ballet 5:8

The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe reimagines Poe not as a distant literary icon, but as a deeply human soul shaped by loss, longing, beauty, and the cultural tensions of a nation moving toward Civil War.

Through neo-classical ballet, African Diaspora movement traditions, spoken word, sound design, and surreal imagery, Poe moves through an imagined psychological landscape where memory, desire, and dread collide.