A Call for Prayer - Premiered at Battery Dance Festival 2020
This piece was created During the Black Lives Matter movement and the concurrent protests in Iraq.
Photos by: STEVEN PISANO
“the festival shines a light early. “A Call for Prayer,” by Hussein Smko — a young, self-trained dancer from Iraqi Kurdistan...struck me as promising. Without the festival, I might never have noticed Mr. Smko. Now I’ll pay attention, and maybe you will, too.”