Apollo, created by Pioneer Winter (2022 Awardee), is an intergenerational dance-theatre work that reimagines the Greek god and his muses through the full spectrum of queer experience. Through choreography, live music, and projections, Apollo draws inspiration from Greek mythology’s Apollo (god of the sun, music, prophecy, and healing), Balanchine’s 1928 ballet Apollo, in addition to lived experience. Where Balanchine’s Apollo encountered three ageless Muses, Pioneer Winter’s Apollo encounters three queer elders, each a past iteration of Apollo himself. Together, these dancers meet, compete, and find strength in their tensions as they try to understand each other and themselves.

The work explores intergenerational connection and mentorship, placing bodies of different ages, abilities, and backgrounds on stage. The work Pioneer Winter Collective creates expands the definition of what dance is, and can be, insisting that all bodies survive, thrive, and are witnessed in spite of ongoing erasure tied to race, body type, age, and ability. The work is presented by Miami Theater Center and FUNDarte in partnership with Miami-Dade County Auditorium’s Away From Home series.