St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue), New York, NY, 10003
United States
Admission: $18 General Admission | $12 Danspace Members
Solos & Solitudes is an evening of solos guest-curated by performance scholars Jenn Joy and Noémie Solomon who asked three choreographers to consider philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman’s text Le Danseur des solitudes (2006), a romantic meditation on dance. Hilary Clark, Caroline Gravel, and Taisha Paggett each imagine a solo addressing the material and temporal qualities of dance as so many flights from “the normal order of things.”
Hilary Clark’s Accessories of Protection (2012) is structured through intuition and improvisation. This work evokes, in Joy’s words, “a melancholic magic that speaks of the warrior’s weakness and longing.”
Montreal-based dance and performance artist Caroline Gravel’s Ma mère est un mâle alpha (My Mother is an Alpha Male) (2012) looks at questions of relations, inheritance, and corporality using a technique of impulsion and “bodystorming” to generate materials.
Taisha Paggett’s work investigates the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race. Private Realness (2012) emerged from an interest in understanding the expressive systems of pop culture phenomena of Zumba and the Autotune and the parasitic relationship between people and things.
Lighting Design Kathy Kaufmann
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