Gibney Dance 280 Broadway
(Enter at 53A Chambers)
Wednesday, December 6 / 6:30 – 8:00 pm / FREE
David Thomson, in discussion with Okwui Okpokwasili, connects his work in Poet/theater artist and musician Sekou Sundiata’s 51st (dream) state to his current performance research project, he his own mythical beast. Examining the unique structures of engagement and research used by each artist to investigate the ongoing questions, mythologies and contradictions of identity, citizenship, race, aesthetic neutrality and humanity in American culture.
A dance screening and discussion series, Sorry I Missed Your Show highlights dance works from the recent past to explore their canonical historicity and relationship to contemporary practice.
Photo by Simon Courchel.