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YVONNE RAINER AT WEISACRES

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Yvonne Rainer—a founding member of Judson Dance Theater—returns to WeisAcres to present the lecture-performance A TRUNCATED HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE FOR DUMMIES, including a 6th-generation version of a section of TRIO A, performed by Apollo.

YVONNE RAINER

Sunday, December 16, at 6 pm.

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537 Broadway (between Spring and Prince), #3,

New York City.

Top: Yvonne Rainer (foreground) in “Trio A,” Judson Memorial Church, New York City, 1966.
Above: Yvonne Rainer, score for “Trio B: Running” from The Mind Is a Muscle. The Getty Research Institute. © Yvonne Rainer.
Below: Rainer dancing “Trio A” from The Mind is a Muscle, mid-1960s.
Courtesy Yvonne Rainer Studio. © Yvonne Rainer.

NICHOLAS SCISCIONE DANCES STEVE PAXTON

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Nicholas Sciscione will dance an excerpt from Steve Paxton’s GOLDBERG VARIATIONS during the opening weekend of Cathy Weis Project’s Sundays on Broadway fall 2018 season.

Sciscione dances with the Stephen Petronio Company, and is an assistant to the artistic director.

Also on the bill: Patricia Hoffbauer and David Thomson will perform their DARK & STORMY—WHEN THINGS GET ROUGH, GRAB PUSSY.

And Weis will show excerpts of videos she shot in the mid-’80s of Paxton improvising in Philadelphia and Vermont to Bach’s Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn Gould.

 

NICHOLAS SCISCIONE—GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

Sunday, November 4, at 6 pm.

WeisAcres, 537 Broadway, #3, New York City.

Steve Paxton, Goldberg Variations, danced by Nicholas Sciscione, photographed by Julie Lemberger.

CHARLES ATLAS — SUNDAYS ON BROADWAY

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Charles Atlas will close out the Spring 2018 Sundays on Broadway season this weekend with a program of new and recent work, curated by Cathy Weis.

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CHARLES ATLAS, Sunday, May 20, at 6 pm.

WEIS ACRES, 537 Broadway (at Spring), #3, New York City.

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Yvonne Rainer’s interview with Charles Atlas: interviewmagazine.com/charles-atlas

See: art21.org/charles-atlas

Charles Atlas. Photograph below by Lori E. Seid.

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JOHNATAN REZENDE

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The dancer, actor, and performance artist Johnatan Rezende creates al fresco interventions in his northeast Brasil district of Sergipe. How he will adapt his work to a loft in downtown Manhattan? Join the artist at WeisAcres this weekend to find out.

Also on the bill: a solo dance by Marc Crousillat, and a movement piece by Stuart Shugg.

 

JOHNATAN REZENDE, Sunday, May 6, at 6 pm.

WEIS ACRES, 537 Broadway (at Spring Street), # 3, New York City.

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Rezende on lower Broadway: youtube.com/watch

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Johnatan Rezende, Vultor Ato I. Photographs by Jamilly Souza.

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MIRIAM PARKER AT WEIS ACRES

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Dancer-choreographer Miriam Parker—creator of Inner City Projects with Jo-Wood Brown and a member of Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks—brings a pendular work to WeisAcres this weekend.

Also on this “Sundays on Broadway” bill are Mina Nishimura and Marilyn Maywald Yahel (with Jennifer Lafferty and Melanie Maar).

 

MIRIAM PARKER, MINA NISHIMURA, MARILYN MAYWALD YAHEL, Sunday, December 3, at 6 pm.

WEIS ACRES, 537 Broadway (at Spring Street), # 3, New York City.

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Miriam Parker. Photograph © Peter Gannushkin.

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