Asian American Ballet Project has six dances meeting the moment and coming to Arrow

“Receding and Reemerging” presents six short – and original – ballets through an Asian American lens, including “Spectre de la Rose,” a 1911 Ballet Russes classic restaged inside a World War II Japanese American internment center. “We are performing one classical piece through an Asian American perspective, three different folk tales we haven’t seen in ballet and two additional contemporary ballets examining current issues such as transracial adoption and LGBTQIA+ rights,” said Beth Mochizuki, founder and artistic director of the Raynham-based Asian American Ballet Project, formed in 2022 and the first Asian American ballet company in the country. (Something else to look out for in the production: The company’s use of contemporary ballet, which infuses elements of modern dance with the classical.) “Diversity and the arts are both under attack right now, so this is an opportunity for us to not only represent Asian Americans in ballet but also to use our voice and highlight these topics through movement,” Mochizuki said.

This piece originally ran in Cambridge Day