MAI (Lil Buck & Jon Boogz) | LOVE HEALS ALL WOUNDS

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.

Co-created and directed by MAI - Jon Boogz and Lil Buck
Spoken Word Poetry by Robin Sanders
Choreographed and performed by MAI in collaboration 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: Castille Ritter and Yöggx
Rehearsal Director: Reimy Jones
Assistant Choreographer: Nao Campbell
Costume Construction: Abby Stroot & Pincushion Las Vegas
Additional music by Chizzy, DBR, Parker & Marshall Mulherin, and Izzy Beats
Featured Voice Narration: Bryan Stevenson
Production Director: Chisa Yamaguchi
Producers: Rika Iino/Sozo Artists and Jon Boogz & Lil Buck/MAI

We give special thanks to Candace Feldman and Steve Raider-Ginsburg, Associate Producers, Steven Foley and Shay Wafer at WACO Theater Center, Emily Weisberg, Colin Hornett, Steve Connell, Superprime, Kristy Edmunds and the entire CAP UCLA team.

Love Heals All Wounds was made possible by The Quiet Fund and 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. Additional support was provided by The Arnhold Foundation and MHCS. Love Heals All Wounds was workshopped at Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts in Northridge, CA, and produced by Sozo Artists Inc.
and MAI in partnership with Sozo Impact Fund and its fiscal sponsors Silicon Valley Community Foundation and WACO Theater Center.

Learn more: www.sozoartists.com