St. Mark’s Church

SITTING ON A MAN’S HEAD—the durational, audience-participatory work by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born—will be performed at Danspace Project throughout March, 2020, as part of the PLATFORM 2020—Utterances from the Chorus program.

A rotating cast of performers includes Martita Abril, Jennifer Brogle, mayfield brooks, Leslie Cuyjet, André Daughtry, Eisa Davis, Brittany Engel-Adams, Lily Gold, Naja Gordon, Melanie Greene, Audrey Hailes, Remi Harris, Jasmine Hearn, Justin Hicks, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Chaesong Kim, Tendayi Kuumba, Breyanna Maples, Priscilla Marrero, Anais Maviel, Maya Orchin, Kay Ottinger, jess pretty, Greg Purnell, Hans Rasch, Katrina Reid, Jean Carla Rodea, Lily Bo Shapiro, Samita Sinha, Eleanor Smith, Tatyana Tenenbaum, David Thomson, Pyeng Threadgill, Asiya Wadud, Charmaine Warren, AJ Wilmore, Anna Witenberg, Nehemoyia Young, Okpokwasili, and Born.

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI and PETER BORN—SITTING ON A MAN’S HEAD

Friday, March 6, 13, and 20, from 6 pm to 10 pm.

Danspace Project

St. Mark’s Church

131 East 10th Street, New York City.

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Sitting On a Man’s Head, in performance, Berlin Biennale, 2018 (Okpokwasili top right and below center in black dress). Images courtesy and © the artists and participants.

In 2016, Vanessa Anspaugh’s The End Of Men: An Ode to Ocean answered the questions, “What does feminist work look like without women as the subject? What happens when men are directed (by me) to embody their intimacies, and are then left to their own devices?”

A year—and a lifetime—later, the choreographer and performance artist presents THE END OF MEN, AGAIN, a Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church.

“Being a lesbian choreographer… I ask these questions with urgency, confusion, and sincerity… I am turning my attention away from the fringes and focusing on the center, on dominance and privilege. In short, I am putting myself in a room filled with men, maleness, masculinity.” — Vanessa Anspaugh

“With an all-cis-male cast—Massimiliano Balduzzi, Lacina Coulibaly, Tristan Koepke, Gilbert Reyes, Simon Thomas-Train, Connor Voss, Jesse Zarritt—Anspaugh explores how power lives in, and between, all of the participating bodies.”*

VANESSA ANSPAUGH—THE END OF MEN, AGAIN*

Thursday through Saturday,

May 25, 26, and 27, at 8 pm.

Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church

131 East 10th Street, New York City.

The End of Men, Again in rehearsal at Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, May 23, 2017, New York City.

Photographs by Ian Douglas. Images courtesy of Danspace Project.

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OKWUI OKPOKWASILI AND PETER BORN — SITTING ON A MAN’S HEAD

VANESSA ANSPAUGH — THE END OF MEN, AGAIN