MOVEMENT is a new evening-length dance work from Netta Yerushalmy that synthesizes over 100 embodied citations from a range of dances across genres and cultures. It is a radical quilt of stolen material that stretches pluralism until it snaps. The project features a new score by Paula Matthusen and is performed by eight dancers hailing from Korea, Senegal, Israel, Taiwan, and across the USA. MOVEMENT will premiere in March 2022 at Peak Performances.

This timely choreographic work by Netta Yerushalmy—introduced live by the artist on March 23—offers a new way to experience dance in the virtual realm. On view until April 13.

Dear Merce is on view through July 3rd, 2020. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rayner Special Collections Wing and Print Gallery

Choreographer Netta Yerushalmy creates an abstract tapestry of movement images inspired by the ISAW exhibit and using Daphnis and Chloe as the musical backdrop. The work features dancers Reid Bartelme, Brittany Engel-Adams, Marc Crousillat, and Amos Machanic.

THE COMPLETE SIX-PART ENCYCLOPEDIC SERIES is a multidisciplinary work that weaves theory and performance into a four-hour-long hybrid event. Yerushalmy and a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, ranging in age from 20 to 68, perform deconstructed installments of Nijinsky’s Sacre (1913), Graham’s Night Journey (1947), Ailey’s Revelations (1960), a mix of Cunningham works Rainforest, Sounddance, Points in Space, Beach Birds, and Ocean (1968-1990), dance numbers from the 1969 Fosse’s film Sweet Charity, and a response to Balanchine’s Agon (1957) that includes none of the original choreography.

THE COMPLETE SIX-PART ENCYCLOPEDIC SERIES is a multidisciplinary work that weaves theory and performance into a four-hour-long hybrid event. Yerushalmy and a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, ranging in age from 20 to 68, perform deconstructed installments of Nijinsky’s Sacre (1913), Graham’s Night Journey (1947), Ailey’s Revelations (1960), a mix of Cunningham works Rainforest, Sounddance, Points in Space, Beach Birds, and Ocean (1968-1990), dance numbers from the 1969 Fosse’s film Sweet Charity, and a response to Balanchine’s Agon (1957) that includes none of the original choreography.

Yerushalmy’s acclaimed PARAMODERNITIES series returns to Live Artery with a showing of three installments (75 minutes, Open to presenters only). In this unique project, iconic modern choreographies are deconstructed and performed alongside contributions by scholars and writers who explore foundational tenets of modern discourse, such as sovereignty, race, feminism, and disability. One installment uses Alvin Ailey’s “Revelation” to examine coercion as concept and embodiment, another positions Vaslav Nijinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” as a political turning point, the third reflects on Bob Fosse’s “Sweet Charity” through the lens of taste intertwined with sex and spectacle.

Performances of works by Lab alumni Camille A. Brown, Juel D. Lane, and Netta Yerushalmy.