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
PM38 | Friday shows!
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Breakfast Mix (@NDA Studio)
10:00am-12:00pm
182 Duane St., NYC
Meet L’Annexe-A, Ciné-Corps, and Koros/Agora de la danse. Grab a VR Headset and experience the virtual work of Hélène Blackburn and Andrea Peña.
This is a free event. Space is limited. For reservations email: admin@newdancealliance.org
Abrons Arts Center
in the Underground Theater
466 Grand St., NYC
Program A @ 7:00PM
Company [REDACTED], Shua Group, Smaïl Kanouté, Thomas Choinacky
Company [REDACTED] will be presenting My Apocalypse Redux, an annihilation drama set on the shores of Times Square Beach. Shame monsters converge at the edge of personal and societal collapse, rolling, rocking, and grabbing their way into the future.
Shua Group: Delving into the relational powers between voice and movement, the Detroit-based Shua Group presents Over, a performance about attention, limits, survival, and grace.
Smaïl Kanouté presents Never Twenty One, echoing the hashtag #Never21, coined by the Black Lives Matter movement. This dance film, presented by Ciné-Corps, wishes to pay tribute to the victims of gun violence in New York, Rio, or Johannesburg… who will never turn 21 years old. Through their graffitied bodies, three dancers embody both the words of the victims and their families, and the evils they have suffered. Like wandering spirits, they tell us about these stolen and broken lives. Moving from krump to electro, popping to contemporary dance, different energies slowly come through to bring out the victims invisible presence and name their unspeakable pain.
Thomas Choinacky’s “duet,” Home is the Body, asks: How can I learn empathy from my own body? The dancer, in formation with their duct tape mummy explores a slow, reflective movement score continually asking themself to breathe into all parts of the body to find home.
Program B @ 8:30PM
Clément Cogitore, Estrellx/EHQS, Karley Wasaff | Kinetics with Karley, Shannon Yu/ SHA Creative Outlet (LiftOff Resident Artist)
Clément Cogitore: Ciné-Corps film: Les Indes Galantesis an opera-ballet created by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1753. Clément Cogitore adapts, in collaboration with three choreographers Bintou Dembélé, Brahim Rachiki, and Igor Carouge, a short part of the ballet by mobilizing a group of krump dancers, a dance form born in South Central Los Angeles in the early 1990s as an expression of protest against police brutality. The colonial overtones of this 18th-century opera, which presented toxic stereotypes of non-Europeans are removed in the film’s re-envisioning, opening up a space for collective movements that offer justice, inclusion, and freedom to everyone.
Estrellx/EHQS performs The Switch or WHORE Anthem_cycle 1, a solo performance that unfolds within an imaginary dark room where edging is foregrounded and foreplay is extended, where the tension between words and psychosomatic states moves in and out of obscurity and opacity. The Switch asks, Is a protest a protest if it cannot be heard, seen, or felt? What other forms of subtle, rhizomatic, telepathic, and erotic protesting are possible to conjure within the realm of the unseen?
Karley Wasaff | Kinetics with Karley: XwhY is a compositional-improvisational score that explores the restrictions and tension that gender markers place on a person. This score utilizes memories and “X marks the spot” as movement scores to enunciate the hardships of nonbinary/female identities.
Shannon Yu/SHA Creative Outlet (LiftOff Resident Artist) will be presenting Shapeshifter, a solo dance exploration of consciousness through textures of movement and sound. A mixed streamlining of Asian roots and hip-hop culture.
ankita sharma: In labor, Kali awakens to the demands of worship and is remade into an idol. jagaana/Awaken/ is an excerpt from ankita sharma’s dhoka/Betrayal/, in which Kali’s ultimate power tips into destruction as Hinduism is colonized into propaganda for violence.
PM38 features work by
ankita sharma – Arantxa Araujo in collaboration with Mariana Uribe – Audrée Juteau, Zoey Gauld, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, & Ellen Furey – Aya Shabu – Beatriz Castro Mauri – Bob Eisen – Carole Arcega – Chloë Engel – Clément Cogitore – Company [REDACTED] – Estrellx/EHQS – Flamenco Rosado – Frédéric Nauczyciel – Isa Spector – j. bouey – Johanna Meyer – Jordan Deal – Karley Wasaff | Kinetics with Karley – Lena Engelstein – Lo Fi Dance Theory – Mickey D & Friends – Mohamad Moe Sabbah and Khansa – Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud – Shannon Yu/ SHA Creative Outlet – Shua Group – Smaïl Kanouté – Tal Halevi – Thomas Choinacky – Viktor Horváth – Yolette Yellow-Duke
To learn more about the artists and performance schedule, visit the Performance Mix Festival page.
Get your tickets →Photo credits:
Company [REDACTED], photo by Joohee Park; Shua Group, photo by Darrien Pope; Thomas Choinacky, photo by Jeanelle Mastema; Estrellx/EHQS, photo by Elyse Mertz; Karley Wasaff | Kinetics with Karley, photo by John Christou; Shannon Yu/ SHA Creative Outlet, photo by Elyse Mertz
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