Meet the Artist Performance Series 2010

Summer Stages Dance and ICA/Boston present
Co Lab: Process + Performance

Barbara lee Family Foundation Theater at the ICA/Boston

Photos by Miana Grafals

Some of America's finest artists come together in dynamic collaborations between the visual arts, poetry and dance. The artists will each share comments about the work and the collaboration, offering a detailed and unique look at the elements and practices that go into their 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.

Co Lab Performances: July 20 and July 28, 2010

Tuesday, July 20th @ 7 pm
Anne Carson, Poet, and Rashaun Mitchell, Choreographer
Bracko, and Nox, a New Work in Progress

Photos by Liza Voll

"'Bracko' is fascinating, varied and full of promise, but the new 'Nox' is a work of rare theatrical power...You're always aware that [Mitchell and Riener] are two of the greatest dancers before the public today."
--Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times, July 21, 2010

Wednesday, July 28 @ 7:30 pm 
Jenny Holzer, Visual Artist, and Miguel Gutierrez, Choreographer

Photo by Jaye R Phillips	Photo by Liza Voll

"Her Words, His Movement, Their Collaboration" A Preview of Co Lab: Process + Performance - Jenny Holzer, visual artists and Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer
--Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times, July 20, 2010

These one of kind performances will be held in Summer Stages’ Dance/Performance Studio at Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts. Click here for directions.
Programs and artists are subject to change.