In-Process Choreopoem Commission
Ladies of Hip-Hop: The Black Dancing Bodies Project
Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pm
Works & Process at Lincoln Center, Clark Studio Theater
An ongoing performance and documentary effort to represent Black women in street and club dance culture, this session highlights the choreopoem, first coined in 1975 by writer Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf). Led by Michele Byrd-McPhee, new writing, poetry by Ursula Rucker, and music and dance of street, club and African culture come together in this show-and-tell, culminating the Ladies of Hip-Hop’s Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation.
Works & Process Commission
Les Ballet Afrik: New York Is Burning by Omari Wiles – World Premiere
Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 7:30 pm
Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Peter B. Lewis Theater
House of Oricci founding father and ballroom community legend Omari Wiles brings ballroom to the Guggenheim in the long-awaited premiere of New York Is Burning, commissioned by Works & Process, featuring Wiles’s AfrikFusion, which combines traditional African dances and Afrobeat with house dance and vogue.
The 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning received critical acclaim for its depiction of the New York drag ball scene and of voguing as a powerful expression of personal pride in the face of racism, homophobia, and the stigma of the AIDS crisis. Just as Paris Is Burning did for New York in the 1980s, New York Is Burning reflects the aspirations, desires, and yearnings of a diverse group of dancers in a city beset by health, racial, and financial crises.
Commissioned by Works & Process in 2019, prior to the pandemic, as an homage to Paris Is Burning on the documentary’s thirtieth anniversary, Wiles’s new work centers on the artists for whom his dance company serves as a surrogate family, including Kya Azeen, Eva Bust A’ Move, Algin Ford-Sterling, Alora Martinez, Shireen Rahimi, Milerka Rodriguez, Karma Stylz, Yuki Sukezane, and Yuhee Yang.
Wiles developed the Works & Process commission for his company, Les Ballet Afrik, in a summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a spring 2021 Works & Process bubble residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation, and a January 2022 Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at The Church, Sag Harbor in partnership with Guild Hall. Throughout this time, in some of New York State’s first permitted performances during the pandemic, Works & Process coproduced Les Ballet Afrik’s outdoor, filmed, and preview performances at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum rotunda. The company has performed previews at Jacob’s Pillow, New Victory Theater, and SummerStage.
Dance Conversations
Intergenerational Memories of New York City Club Dancers with Ephrat Asherie
Monday, November 7, 7 pm
Works & Process at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium
In conjunction with the November 13 and 14 premiere of UNDERSCORED, choreographer Ephrat Asherie is working with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division to collect and archive oral histories from elders who helped create and usher in NYC’s underground dance scene in the 1970s and 1980s. In this program, legendary elders from the underground dance community will share their stories in conversation with Asherie.
Works & Process Commission
“UNDERSCORED” by Ephrat Asherie Dance and NYC Club Legends
Sunday and Monday, November 13 and 14, 7:30 pm
Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Peter B. Lewis Theater
Commissioned by Works & Process, UNDERSCORED is a multi-faceted project that acts as a living archive of five generations of NYC club dancers. Rooted in the intergenerational stories and memories of NYC underground club heads, UNDERSCORED was created in collaboration with legendary elders from the underground dance community such as Archie Burnett, Michele Saunders, and Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune and Ephrat Asherie Dance company members Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Manon Bal, Ron “Stealth-1” Chunn Jr., Teena Marie Custer, Val “Ms. Vee” Ho, and Matthew “Megawatt” West. The performers, ranging in age from 27 to 79, share lived experiences, stories, and vibes from seminal underground parties, including David Mancuso’s the Loft, Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage and Timmy Regisford’s Shelter. Featuring costumes by David Dalrymple and building on the intergenerational transference of knowledge and culturally reflective movement that happens night after night on dance floors across the city, UNDERSCORED explores the ever-changing physical and musical landscape of New York City’s underground dance community.
Commissioned by Works & Process in 2018, UNDERSCORED makes its long-awaited world premiere in the Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim following a summer 2019 residency at LUMBERYARD, summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a spring 2021 Works & Process bubble residency at Bridge Street Theatre with the support of the Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and May 2022 Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation. Throughout this time, in some of New York State’s first permitted performances during the pandemic, Works & Process coproduced outdoor, filmed, and preview performances of UNDERSCORED at Harlem Stage, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda. During summer of 2022, in-process performances of UNDERSCORED were presented at the Vail Dance Festival and The Yard.
LayeRhythm (On The Move) with The Hood Lockers
In collaboration with 92NY and Hi-ARTS
Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm
Works & Process at Gibney, Gibney Center 280, The Theater (Studio H)
Embodying the continuum of concert and social dance, LayeRhythm led by Mai Lê Hô weaves a singular mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures. Spotlighting The Hood Lockers, the evening will feature choreographed work from the company alongside improvisations by musicians, dancers and emcees, captivating young and old, theater and club goers.
LayeRhythm founder Mai Lê Hô weaves a singular mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures. Events feature choreographed work from guest companies alongside improvisations by musicians, dancers and emcees, captivating young and old, theater and club goers.
Third Thursdays this fall, Works & Process and 92NY, with community partner Hi-ARTS present “LayeRhythm (On The Move)” at the Guggenheim (9/15), The New York Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division (10/20), Gibney Center (11/17), and Lincoln Center (12/15).
Works & Process Commission
Masterz at Work Dance Family: ALL INCLUSIVE AND MORE by Courtney Washington Balenciaga, with The Masterz Ball in the rotunda
Monday, November 21 at 7:30 pm
Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Peter B. Lewis Theater and Rotunda
A legend within the ballroom community, founder of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture, leader of The House of Balenciaga, and this year’s Latex Ball Avis Penda’vis Angel Award winner, Black trans femme choreographer Courtney Washington Balenciaga creates dances that are a representation of resiliency, and which foster community in under-resourced areas of Brooklyn. Her new Works & Process commission, ALL INCLUSIVE AND MORE fuses street dance, street jazz, ballroom, vogue, and hip-hop. Informed by her own experience as a queer teenager who found refuge from teasing in dance, the work conveys how her gender transition spurred transformative emotional, creative, and physical liberation. An expansion of ALL INCLUSIVE, which was commissioned in 2020 and performed in the Guggenheim’s rotunda as performances were reopening in New York on March 31, 2021, this latest work furthers her ambitions toward shaping a more inclusive, fair, representative, and colorful world. Mya Donyale Bonilla, Producer and Programs Manager at Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective, will moderate the discussion with Courtney Washington Balenciaga.
In conjunction with the Guggenheim’s Member Mondays, this performance in the theater will continue into the rotunda with The Masterz Ball featuring commentating by Snookie Juicy West and music by DJ Byrell. All audience members are encouraged to participate in the ball, with categories including All Inclusive, Best Dressed, and Creative Expression.
Commissioned by Works & Process in 2020, this work was developed in a Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in March 2021. This work will also receive a two-week Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at Bethany Arts Community in November 2022, which will provide creative time and commissioning resources for Masterz at Work Dance Family and its uplifting and inspiring dancers Luis, Lamell “Jay Parel” Clemons, Jai’Quin Coleman, DeAndre Cousley, Mehki Cuffee, Rasheed “NewBorn” Lucas Jr., Guya Marie, Armani Moore, Dashaun “DayDay” Peals, and Brian Starke.
Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” Residencies
Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY
Masterz at Work Dance Family with Courtney Washington Balenciaga
November 7–19
Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY
Ladies of Hip-Hop
October 21–November 3
Indian Letters by Amar Ramasar and Preeti Vasudevan
November 6–14
Modern Accord Depot, Accord, NY
Jack Ferver, Lloyd Knight, and Jeremy Jacob
November 28–December 3
VENUES
Gibney Center
280 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Clark Studio Theater, Samuel B. and David Rose Building
165 West 65th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10023
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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12) ZviDance Presents
the World Premiere of
Migrations
at New York Live Arts
November 3-5, 2022
ZviDance (Zvi Gotheiner, Choreographer and Artistic Director) presents Migrations, an evening-length dance performance collaboration between Zvi Gotheiner, composer Scott Killian, lighting designer Mark London, and seven dancers. Migrations is in line with Gotheiner’s previous works that reflect on the collision of humanity with nature. In Migrations, Gotheiner will focus his creative attention on bird migration imagery and tendencies as a poetic mirroring for the current acceleration of human migration as a result of wars and the diminishing of life-sustaining resources due to global warming. Bird’s migration patterns are made in response to changes in food availability, habitat, or weather. These days, war is displacing people in Ukraine and the world is experiencing another wave of refugees. These concepts serve as a point of departure for the creation of Migrations. The choreography utilizes bird’s flocking imagery in the design of large group work, and flight imagery for the creation of trios and duets. Killian’s cinematic electronic score supports a sense of heroic struggle when traveling through the elements, while London’s light design will create landscapes that give the work a transitory sense of place. Migrations will have a live staged premiere on November 3-5, 2022 (Thu and Fri at 7:30pm, Sat at 2pm and 7:30pm) at at New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St., New York, NY. Tickets are $25 general admission and $18 for students and seniors and are available for purchase at newyorklivearts.org/event/migrations.
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