SOLI is a dance created in collaboration with Kenneth Reams—an artist, activist, and inmate on death row.

This piece oscillates between themes of solitude and solidarity to offer space for reflection regarding the injustices of the American criminal justice system and the continued practice of capital punishment. Centered around Reams’s inability to be in attendance for this labor of mutual respect, admiration, and ideas, this dance explores the limits of presence for the absent body, and the vulnerability of invisibility. This dance premiere, part of TAPS's Graduate Repertory 2020, is choreographed by Anna Kimmel with music composed by Barbara Nerness and performed by the Stanford New Ensemble, directed by Hans Kretz.