Meet the Artist Performance Series
in Concord and at the ICA/Boston for 2010!
Summer Stages Dance and ICA/Boston present Co Lab: Process + Performance
These informal evenings with some of America's great artists will expose the audience to the forces, densities, and intensities of the creative process.
TRAJAL HARRELL
Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)
Featuring work by visual artist Franklin Evans
Friday, November 5, 8 pm
Saturday, November 6, 8 pm
Barbara lee Family Foundation Theater at the ICA/Boston
Post-performance conversation with Co Lab collaborators Trajal Harrell and sculptor Sarah Sze
"They don't make many artists like Mr. Harrell; his sophisticated, nuanced works are not to be missed."
—The New York Times
New York-based choreographer Trajal Harrell has been at the center of a recent reemergence of voguing. In a compelling new solo work, he explores its surprising connections to the postmodern dance of 1960s New York. As Harrell puts it, this piece seeks to answer the question: “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform at Judson Church with the early postmodern choreographers?"
For Harrell, they come together on the runway, where he embodies 20 different “looks” or personas, from “West Coast Preppy School Boy” to “Serving Superhero” (complete with cape). Like Yvonne Rainer or Trisha Brown, Harrell debates the very nature of performance—the role of seduction, glamour, and spectacle in dance and in the ways we present ourselves in everyday life.
Following the performance, stay for a talk with Harrell and visual artist Sarah Sze, who are collaborating on a new work during a week-long residency at the ICA. The residency and performance, to be presented in 2011, are part of Co Lab: Process + Performance, a partnership between Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy and the ICA/Boston.
For tickets, visit icaboston.org $20 nonmembers; $18 ICA/Boston members and students. 978-402-2339 for more information
The Co Lab series is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the many generous individual donors of Summer Stages Dance and the ICA/Boston, and the Contemporary Art Centers (CAC) network, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), with major support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. CAC is comprised of leading art centers and brings together performing arts curators to support collaboration and work across disciplines, and is an initiative of NEFA’s National Dance Project.
“The Summer Stages Dance festival always packs a punch with stellar guest artists…”
Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe
Photos by Miana Grafals, Jaye R. Phillips, Sara Sze, Liza Voll
Summer Stages Dance’s rich and varied series of performances bring our dynamic faculty, stellar guest artists, and workshop participants together in a showcase of great contemporary dance for Boston-area dance audiences.
