Annie Heath by Cameron Kelly McLeod
“I’m really glad that Performance Mix #34: Remotely Yours turned out to be so productive for me. I was able to wrap my head around the ideas that were all circling in my head.”
–Annie Heath
Join Us Tonight for Opening!
36th Annual
Performance Mix Festival
at Abrons Arts Center, as part of the @Abrons Series
June 9-12, 2022
Join us tonight for opening night
Discounted ticket packages available here if you attend multiple performances!
Thursday, June 9th at 7PM • Program A
Bob Eisen’s new work is a continuation of his interest in exploring issues of form, structure, movement invention, and humor in dance. It also deals with what it is like to dance at age 75. Learn more →
Mia Martelli’s Girly-Sound is a solo performance in conversation with the lyrics, structuring, and aesthetics of Liz Phair’s 1994 album Exile in Guyville. It continues Martelli’s research project/performance about desire, demo tapes, and DIY culture. Mia Martelli is a 2021 NDA LiftOff Resident Artist. Girly-Sound was also made possible with support by For the Artists! Residency Program at MOtiVE Brooklyn and the Visual Muze Residency through West Harlem Art Fund. Learn more →
In Liz Oakley’s Bodywhere multi-scaled, ever-evolving puppet creatures explore the terrain of a human body, encountering reflections and iterations of form and self. Bodywhere considers the body as both performance site and landscape, exploring questions of how we navigate, rely on, exploit, and dynamically relate to land and location. Learn more →
Purchase Tickets!Thursday, June 9th at 8:30PM • Program B
In a structured improvisation, Julio Medina explores how various movement languages coexist in one body through cultural and assimilated practice. Simultaneously, the piece serves as a process of decolonization for the performer, resisting a relentless Mozart symphony by pushing, redirecting, and splitting the body with a juxtaposed movement vocabulary. Learn more →
For this show, Anna Thérèse Witenberg presents an excerpt from her multi-act dance-play Diotima’s Drain. Composer John King stars as the dancer and actor. Learn more →
Head Over Heels is a short, movement-informed film that documents Hortense Gerardo’s journey to the world’s most isolated inhabited land, Easter Island, to fulfill a lifelong fascination with moai, the mysterious giant stone sculptures of stylized human heads discovered there in 1722. The work explores the divide between the academic exploration of the origins and devolution of the moai of Easter Island, the narratives of the Indigenous people, and the story told by the land and the archaeological remains of the sculptures themselves. Learn more →
Gabrielle Revlock & Sarah K Williams’s Orientation is inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s book A Field Guide to Getting Lost and utilizes movement, language, and objects. Incorporating daily phone calls recorded between the two artists during the pandemic, the work investigates how perspective shifts alter our emotional response to the concept of “lost.” Learn more →
Purchase Tickets!Performance Mix #36 features work by:
Bob Eisen • Mia Martelli* • Liz Oakley • Hortense Gerardo • Julio Medina • Gabrielle Revlock & Sarah K Williams • Anna Thérèse Witenberg • Ashley A. Friend: Outside the Outside • Ma’at Works** • Indygo Afi Ngozi • Nate Yaffe • Blaze Ferrer • Kayla Hamilton** • David Lee Sierra • Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC • binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa • Daina Ashbee • ChristinaNoel & The Creature • gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata) • Jade Manns • SHA Creative Outlet • Mariam Dingilian • Jill Rousseau • Sarah Star Sterling • Bernard Brown/bbmoves • Xan Burley + Alex Springer • Nick Alselmo/The Pocket Fuel Groovers* • x and co.*
*Fall 2021 LiftOff Resident Artist / **2022 Black Artists Space To Create Resident Artist
Full Performance Schedule & tickets
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
