With his shaved head, pearl studs piercing the tops of his ears, and a black tattoo that says "nunc scio quid sit amor," Latin for "Now I know what love is," running up his left forearm, Stephen Petronio comes across just as sleek, sexy, and idiosyncratic in person as his dances do onstage. This year he became the first choreographer commissioned by Flushing's Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP). He spent March living and rehearsing in Morelia, Mexico, a small, conservative town four hours out of Mexico City in the state of Michoacán that's home to A-Quo Danza Contemporánea. On August 7, A-Quo performs at QTP, closing its... More >>>