In Performance: 20 Dancers for the XX Century at MOMA (NYC)

20 Dancers for the XX Century
Friday, October 18, 2013, 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 20, 2013, 12:00 p.m.
MOMA
11 WEST 53 STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10019

20 Dancers for the XX Century(2012/2013) presents a living archive. Twenty performers from different generations perform, recall, appropriate, and transmit acclaimed yet forgotten solo works of the last century that were originally conceived or performed by some of the most significant modernist and postmodernist dancers, choreographers, and performance artists. Each performer presents his or her own museum, where the body is the ultimate space for the dance museum. Hence there is neither a stage nor a demarcation of performance space. Rather, the performers circulate freely between the Museum’s Marron Atrium, the Museum galleries, and other public spaces.

Cast: Magali Caillet-Gajan, Ashley Chen, Jim Fletcher, Brennan Gerard, Trajal Harrell, Burr Johnson, Lénio Kaklea, Catherine Legrand, Morgan Lugo, Richard Move, Mani A. Mungai, Banu Ogan, Leiomy Prodigy, Christopher Roman, Shelley Senter, Valda Setterfield, Gus Solomons, John Sorensen-Jolink, Meg Stuart, and Adam Weinert

Musée de la danse. 20 Dancers for the XX Century. 2012. Dancer: Fabian Barba. Les Champs Libres, Rennes. Photo: Nyima Leray