Archive 2019
Going Spaces and Other Worlding

Going Spaces and Other Worlding

Going Spaces and Other Worlding is the culmination of two years of residencies, research, and experimentation. Through film, performance, and sculptural installation, Tripp uses forms of reenactment and rehearsal to conjure alternative modes of freedom, utopia, and civil disobedience at the crossroads of globalization and cultural hybridity. Sept 21 - Dec 1, 2019
Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena: The Door’s Unlocked

Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena: The Door’s Unlocked

Foley Gallery 59 Orchard Street, NYC 10002 Monday through Friday 2pm-10pm | Saturday and Sunday 12pm-9pm
Parts of some Sextets

Parts of some Sextets

Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center 15-17 November 2019 DUMBO, 29 Jay Street, Bklyn A piece centered around 12 mattresses, a 17th century American diarist and the madness of action.
Last Audience

Last Audience

The Last Audience is a work embodied by its audience–a live laboratory for the communal work of conjuring. New York Live Arts 219 W 19th St, New York October 16-20 6:30pm
Restagings No. 3: Fall (C.A.)

Restagings No. 3: Fall (C.A.)

Fridman Gallery is honored to present Abigail Levine’s Restagings No. 3: Fall (C.A.), a 10 ½ hour performance and collective ritual for a community of performers, writers, and their witnesses. Sunday, October 13th 2pm-12:30am
Continuous Project: 60 Years

Continuous Project: 60 Years

Remai Modern
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Saturday, October 5, 7 PM
Sunday, October 6, 2 PM

Sorry I Missed Your Show: Adrienne Truscott

Sorry I Missed Your Show: Adrienne Truscott

Sorry I Missed Your Show: Adrienne Truscotted by makers David Thomson and Melanie George, will present and talk about excerpts from a show that has caused her nothing but trouble—from the humorously banal to the deeply consequential, both personally and professionally. Gibney Dance 280 Broadway, entrance 53A chambers Sept. 18th 6:30
ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY

Saturday, June 22, 6:30pm

Part of series of performances before the closing of The Kitchen for a 2 year renovation.

Marking the Occasion

Marking the Occasion

Mt. Tremper Arts Center

Watershed Lab 2019

Curated by Jaime Shearn Coan and Tara Aisha Willis. Bringing seven artists together to explore the intersection of text and performance.

Movement Research Gala 2019

Movement Research Gala 2019

Judson Memorial ChurchThursday, June 6th  I have the pleasure of being honored with the wonderful Stephen Facey this year at the Movement Research Gala on June 6th.  Movement Research is one of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms, now celebrating it’s 40th year.  It’s an organization that is near and dear to my heart for...
Danspace Gala 2019: Rebel Angels: Honoring Simone Forti & Okwui Okpokwasili

Danspace Gala 2019: Rebel Angels: Honoring Simone Forti & Okwui Okpokwasili

St Marks Church

Tuesday, May 7 at 6pm

Danspace’s 2019 Gala honors visionary artists Simone Forti and Okwui Okpokwasili, whose embodied grace and radical generosity inspire across generations.

Yanira Castro | a canary torsi : Live Feed In-Process: Last Audience

Yanira Castro | a canary torsi : Live Feed In-Process: Last Audience

New York Live Arts

April 26, 2019

Last Audience is a piece made with the audience. It grapples with questions of agency, manipulation and the complexity of choice inside a theatrical context.

Albertine Prize Launch 2019

Albertine Prize Launch 2019

French Embassy

972 Fifth Avenue

New York

April 3, 2019

I had pleasure of being invited to read a excerpt from Small Country by Gaël Faye, one of the five finalists for the prize. Translated by Sarah Ardizzone

Dance Union Podcast

Dance Union Podcast

The Dance Union Podast

Episode 42: Sustainability in Dance

Melanie and Jay met with David Hamilton Thomson to speak about his Sustainability Project that helps dance artists explore sustainable practices of making art.

What is Black Space?

What is Black Space?

Dancing While Black, Inaugural publication March 2019
Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Sharjah Biennial 14, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Collaboration with Caecilia Tripp 5-screen film installation, copper sculpture

Tracing Beyond

Tracing Beyond

Museum of Modern Art

January 24, 2019 6:30p

This Studies Project traces the legacies of dance beyond Judson Dance Theater, considering the complex web of influences and developments in the years before, during, and in the many decades since.

Extended Life Dance 3 Year Development Residency Fellowship

Extended Life Dance 3 Year Development Residency Fellowship

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

2019-2021

The Kitchen L.A.B.

The Kitchen L.A.B.

April 17, 6:30pm

Free

The sixth gathering in this year's L.A.B. series, featuring Chloë Bass, Andrianna Campbell, and David Thomson, revolving around the term relation.