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Danspace Project Winter 2017Performances and Events

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Danspace Project presents new work in dance, supports a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourages experimentation, and connects artists to audiences. For over 40 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and New York Theatre Ballet. Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative has commissioned over 500 new works since its inception in 1994.

Danspace Project’s Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²) provides context for audiences and increased support for artists. Our presentation programs (including Platforms, Food for Thought, DraftWork), Commissioning Initiative, residencies, guest artist curators, and contextualizing activities and materials are core components of CW² offering a responsive framework for artists’ works. Since 2010, we have produced eleven Platforms, published eleven print catalogues and five e-books, launched the Conversations Without Walls discussion series, and explored models for public discourse and residencies.

Advance Tickets$22 General $15 Members (unless otherwise noted)Tickets can be purchased at the door for $25 (cash or check only), pending availability.

Purchase Advance Ticketsdanspaceproject.org or by phone (OvationTix / TheaterMania): (866) 811-4111

Visit UsDanspace Project is located inside the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery at 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue) in New York City’s East Village.Phone: (212) 674-8112Email: [email protected]

Follow UsInstagram: @DanspaceProject Twitter: @DanspaceProject Facebook: Danspace Project

Danspace Project Performances and EventsWinter 2017

January 5-7

Vicky Shick

January 12-14

Food for Thought

January 19-20

Ruth Patir

February 2-4

Douglas Dunn + Dancers

February 23-25

Benjamin Kimitch

February 25

DraftWork: Pepper Fajans/Laura Shapiro

March 2-4

Community ACCESS: The Kathak Ensemble & Friends

March 9-11

The Bang Group

March 16-18

Emily Coates

March 23-25

Food for Thought

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Announcing Danspace Project’s New Online PublicationTHE JOURNAL

While designing Danspace Project’s Platform series in 2008, I knew I wanted to work with artists as curators to formally frame relationships between artists of different generations. That’s where, I believe, there is productive tension, and where there’s friction, there’s always a generative spark or two.

From the first Platform in 2010 curated by Ralph Lemon, through the Platform 2016: Lost and Found, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls, artists, curators, and writers have activated intergenerational networks to contribute to our re-imagining of how we contextualize and present time-based art today.

To further this research we have created a new online publication, The Journal, dedicated to expanding the reach of the

Platforms and other Danspace programs and partnerships beyond the walls of our iconic space. The ideas and connections sparked by our curatorial projects continue long after the performances end. The Journal is a place where the conversations continue.

Please take a look at our fourth issue devoted to Platform 2016: Lost and Found, edited by Jaime Shearn Coan, Lily Cohen, and Michael DiPietro. Review the Table of Contents below and go to danspaceproject.org/journal for more.

Judy Hussie-TaylorDanspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator

the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, October 22, 2016. Photo: Ian Douglas.

Table of Contents Journal Issue 4: Lost & Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now: Lost & Found: Video Postcards #1-7 • Max DiCorcia, “You are My Friend” • A Clear and Present Danger: “HIV/AIDS Now” in the Era of President Trump? • Onboard at The Pyramid: 1984–1988 • Black Male • Song as Catharsis “Living Archives and Caregiving: An Interview with Janet Werther” • Lost and Found at the StoryBooth • Memory Palace: Lucy Sexton • Kia Labeija: Mimi’s Last Dance • Memory Palace: Arthur Avilés • The Sailor’s Daughter: AIDS before AIDS in the Present • Jaime Shearn Coan in Conversation with Mariana Valencia • Memory Palace: iele paloumpis • About AIDS Dance: Remembrance as a

Performative Process • Music from Lost & Found • Much more!

danspaceproject.org/journal

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Vicky Shick: Another SpellThursday–SaturdayJanuary 5–78 PM

$22 General / $15 Members

Another Spell, which premiered at Danspace Project in 2016, is Vicky Shick’s sixth Danspace commission, and marked the 20th anniversary of her first Danspace commission. Another Spell “showed yet again how skilled this echt downtown choreographer is at placing incongruent moments next to each other and letting them float down the same gossamer stream.” (Claudia La Rocco, Artforum)

Inside a small village of women, a camaraderie guides the dancers’ movement. “My obsessive passion for trying to decipher nuance, detail, intimacy and the quirkiness of the everyday bubbles here,” says Shick “With an abiding commitment to ongoing work, we are recycling some cherished set and costume pieces—scattering and dancing them in a new landscape.”

Dancers Jodi Bender, Donna Costello, Lily Gold, Laurel Jenkins, Marilyn Maywald Yahel, Heather Olson, Vicky ShickSet and Costume Piece Barbara KilpatrickSound Design Elise KermaniAdditional music composition Todd LentLighting Design Kathy Kaufmann

Danspace Project has commissioned over 500 works since 1994. This winter we present a recent Danspace commission, coinciding with the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP).

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Ruth Patir’s research into dreams and the political imagination has been ongoing since 2014. Patir’s most recent video work, Sleepers, was shot at Danspace Project in the St. Mark’s Church sanctuary in September 2016 in the midst of a tumultuous election season. The dreams of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama described in the work were collected by writer Sheila Heti as part of idreamofhillary.blogspot.ca, a project created in 2008. “The dreams,” Patir writes, “tell a tale of desire and fear.”

On Thursday, January 19 at 8pm, Patir will present a newly edited version of Sleepers and a solo lecture performance. Admission: $10 General

On Friday, January 20 from 3-9pm, in honor of Inauguration Day, Patir will host a day of conversations and readings inspired by the 2008 and 2016 elections. Patir will invite guest artists, including Liz Magic Lazer and Jackson Randall, to consider the dream as a site of political intervention. Admission: RSVP recommended at danspaceproject.org. $10 suggested donation at the door.

Ruth Patir: I dream of the electionsThursday, January 198 PM&Friday, January 203–9 PM

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If we could reach our obverse, would she be complementary? If we could see ourselves from behind, or look out of the backs of our heads, would our minds flip?

Antipodes is a new evening by renowned dancer, choreographer, and teacher Douglas Dunn featuring design by Mimi Gross, an original score performed live by Steven Taylor & Laura Brenneman, and lighting by Carol Mullins.

Antipodes traces a straight line, or an arc, between two distant places. The design by Mimi Gross and the music by Steven Taylor include what Dunn calls “internal oppositions.” The pathways of design, music and dancing run parallel, crisscross, or entangle.

Dancers Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, and Christopher Williams.

The performance on Thursday, February 2 will be followed by a discussion with Douglas Dunn and collaborators Mimi Gross, Steven Taylor, and Carol Mullins.

Douglas Dunn + Dancers: AntipodesThursday–SaturdayFebruary 2–48 PM

$22 General / $15 Members

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Vaulted branches is a new evening-length dance by Japanese-American/NYC-based Benjamin Kimitch. A solo for dancer/collaborator Julie McMillan,Vaulted branches seeks to create a sensory landscape in which to contemplate grief and loss through a series of articulated pauses and sustained images.

The choreography is developed through Kimitch’s research of final compositions or sketches written by western composers in the classical music canon, such as Charles Ives, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler, whose music serves as poetic guides.

The work emerges from years of assembling religious images, in particular those of flying apsaras and Boddhisatvas featured in the historic Buddhist Dunhuang cave murals of northern China.

Benjamin Kimitch: Vaulted branchesThursday–SaturdayFebruary 23–258 PM

$22 General / $15 Members

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The Bang Group (co-founded by Jeffrey Kazin and David Parker) returns for their third Danspace Project season with A Mouthful of Shoes.

This new work continues choreographer David Parker’s adventurous exploration of the sonic potential of the dancing body in a varied, interlocking suite of percussive dances. Working with a wide-ranging movement vocabulary drawing from classical and contemporary forms as well as tap dance, Parker has taken a set of musical scores both contemporary and traditional, re-created them as choreographic systems, and embodied them with dancers. Thus, they can be “played” entirely by feet and bodies.

Dancers Chelsea Ainsworth, Dylan Baker, Rebecca Hadley, Jeffrey Kazin, Alison Manning, David Parker, Nic Petry, Tommy Seibold, Caleb Teicher, and Amber SloanMusicians Pauline Kim Harris, violinist; others to be announcedComposers Dean Rosenthal, Morton Feldman, W.A. Mozart, Steve Reich, Igor StravinskyCostumes Pei Chi-SuLighting Kathy Kaufmann

The Bang Group: A Mouthful of ShoesThursday–SaturdayMarch 9–118 PM

$22 General / $15 Members

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When describing his 1928 neoclassical masterpiece Apollo, George Balanchine said he learned to “not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate…to the one possibility that is inevitable.” Questions around this statement propel Emily Coates’ Incarnations: who gets to identify that single idea? Who gets to carry knowledge forward? Who gets to play God?

Performed in-progress as part of Danspace Project’s Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, Incarnations plays with science and ballet—two of the last bastions of deification in our society. Moving between lecture and performance, pedagogy, and art, the piece interweaves sources such as Balanchine’s Apollo, the elusive body of Sir Isaac Newton, Stravinsky rehearsing Apollon musagète, the discovery of the Higgs boson, and Emily Coates’s ongoing collaboration with particle physicist Sarah Demers.

Performers Emily Coates, Sarah Demers, Lacina Coulibaly, Iréne Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Will OrzoLighting Carol MullinsMusic direction Will Orzo

Thursday–SaturdayMarch 16–188 PM

$22 General / $15 Members

Emily Coates:Incarnations

The performance on Thursday, March 16 will be followed by a discussion moderated by Douglas Crimp.

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Food for Thought is Danspace Project’s semi-annual food drive series with a different guest curator each night. Canned goods collected over the weekend benefit St. Mark’s Church food distribution programs.

Admission: $5 + 2 cans of food; or $10

Thursday–SaturdayJanuary 12–148 PMCurated by Michael DiPietro (Thursday), Jaime Shearn Coan (Friday), and Kirsten Schnittker (Saturday).

Thursday–Saturday March 23–258 PMCurated by Heidi Latsky (Thursday), Donna Uchizono (Friday), and Nami Yamamoto (Saturday).

Food for Thought

Thursday–Saturday March 2–48 PM

Community ACCESS:The Kathak Ensemble and Friends

Community ACCESS provides subsidized off-season rental opportunities for Danspace Project community members.

Pepper Fajans/Laura Shapiro

SaturdayFebruary 253 PM

Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, the DraftWork series hosts informal Saturday afternoon performances that offer choreographers an opportunity to show their work in various stages of development. Performances are followed by discussion and reception with the curator and choreographers.

Admission: Free and open to the public

DraftWork

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Danspace Project’s 2016-2017 Commissioning Initiative, a core component of The Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²), receives generous support from the Jerome Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the generous individuals that support the Creation Fund, including gifts in honor of the Elizabeth H. Berger Fund. Danspace Project’s 2016-2017 season, including the DraftWork and Food for Thought series, are presented, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Danspace Project programs are made possible in part through PUBLIC FUNDS from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; the New York State DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; and Materials for the Arts (a joint program of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Sanitation).

Danspace Project extends special thanks to City Council Majority Leader and Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, Finance Chair Julissa Ferreras, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, and State Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick for their advocacy and support.

Danspace Project gratefully acknowledges the PRIVATE SUPPORT of Anonymous; Arup; The Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts; Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation; Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Marta Heflin Foundation; the Jerome Foundation; King’s Fountain; Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; The Metabolic

Studio (a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation); the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts; The Stavros Niarchos Foundation; The Jerome Robbins Foundation; the James E. Robison Foundation; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.; The Shubert Foundation; Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust; and the Patrons and Members of Danspace Project.

Danspace Project receives additional support from ARTPIX, Paula Cooper Gallery, Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, The Kitchen, Lutz + Carr, Katherine Moore, Ozone Design, Pangea Restaurant, Pentacle, Porsena Restaurant, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Sky Frame Inc., Tom Cat Bakery, and Veselka as well as from Apple, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, ExxonMobil Foundation, Google, Moody’s Foundation, and The Surdna Foundation through matching gifts programs.

Special thanks to Community Funds, Inc. - LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund for support of equipment and technological upgrades. In addition, lighting equipment was provided courtesy of Dance Theater Workshop and The Joyce Theater. Thanks to Porsena Restaurant.

Executive Director & Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor

Program Director Lydia Bell

Director of Finance & Operations Jodi Bender

Director of DevelopmentPeggy H. Cheng

Communications ManagerLily Cohen

Development & Communications AssociateMichael DiPietro

Development AssociateKirsten Schnittker

Lighting DesignersKathy Kaufmann Carol Mullins

Technical DirectorLeo Janks

Electricians Claire BaconChris BrownSarah HuyckBill Schaffner

House ManagersRacy Brand Jordan Morley

Box Office ManagersEmma Rose BrownLiz CharkyAna Fiore

DraftWork Curator Ishmael Houston-Jones

Intern Heather van der Grinten

House PhotographersTom BrazilIan Douglas

Cover Image courtesy of Benjamin Kimitch; 3 the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, October 22, 2016. Photo: Ian Douglas.; 4 Vicky Shick and Dancers, Another Spell.

Photo: Ian Douglas; 5 Still from Ruth Patir’s Sleepers; 6 Sculpture and photo by Mimi Gross; 7 Photo: Tom Brazil; 8 Jeffrey Kazin and David Parker. Photo: Nicholas Burnham; 9 Emily Coates and Sarah Demers.

Photo: Ian Douglas; 10 The Kathak Ensemble & Friends. Photo: Darial Sneed; Laura Shapiro. Photo: Ian Douglas.

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