“This truly stunning production … was rightly met with a standing ovation.” —Voice (Cambridge, UK)

When rapper 2 Milly proclaimed, “I milly rock on any block,” he codified a cultural trend that, alongside other Black social dances like the Whip/Nae Nae and Hit Dem Folks, came to define the mid-2010s. A decade later, the US-born, Switzerland-based choreographer Jeremy Nedd deconstructs and reframes the Milly Rock. In from rock to rock… aka how magnolia was taken for granite, Nedd and his four-member ensemble iterate on the distinctive rocking arm motion, looping it across shifting figurations. A study on transformation and communal joy, the piece reclaims the popular dance move as an evolving language within Black culture.