"Some sweet day" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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"Some sweet day" is a three-week program of dance performances in the Museum's Marron Atrium by contemporary choreographers. The series, which pairs six internationally renowned choreographers engaged in an intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue about each other's work, demonstrates how the current state of dance can engage with a variety of subjects such as aesthetics, gender, race, and history. Concurrently—by putting a focus on moving bodies in an institution that traditionally showcases static objects—Some sweet day argues for the extended potentials and possibilities of the museum space.
The program opens with two works from the 1960s by Steve Paxton, founding member of New York’s Judson Dance Theatre, paired with French conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bel's "The Show Must Go On" (2001)—a work that is, in many respects, a response to Paxton’s works. Over the following week, the Atrium will come alive with new commissions by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American experimentalist Dean Moss, with staging by visual artist Laylah Ali. Additionally, the week includes a two-day performance by American artist Kevin Beasley, who created a sound-based work that evokes and alters the social, emotional, and political contours of hip-hop. The final week features a pairing of Judson Church founding member Deborah Hay and Sarah Michelson in an intergenerational conversation on movement, space, and time.
Each Saturday, we invite you to join series artists and curators for a response in the Marron Atrium. Each conversation will be led by different respondents, among them Daphne A. Brooks (Princeton University), Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester), and Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University).
[Image: Steve Paxton "Satisfyin Lover, Performed at the Whitney Museum, April 20, 1971. Performers Jeffrey Lew, Al Loving, Richard Nonas, Nancy Green" Photograph by Peter Moore © Estate of Peter Moore / VAGA, NYC]
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Schedule
from October 15, 2012 to November 04, 2012
Artist(s)
Steve Paxton, Jérôme Bel, Faustin Linyekula, Dean Moss, Laylah Ali, Kevin Beasley, Deborah Hay, Sarah Michelson et al.