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February 23-25, 2012 [Thu-Sat] at 8PM

$18 ($12 members)

Tickets and more information: www.danspaceproject.org

Part of PLATFORM 2012: Parallels, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones

**There will be a pre-performance showing of an excerpt from Sally Sommers’ documentary “Check Your Body at The Door” each evening at 7:45PM**

Houston-Jones has brought together a group of choreographers whose work is deeply informed by Hip-Hop, Voguing, and other forms of Black-instigated popular dance. Each has created work that recalls club and social dancing as well as work that is formal and almost classical.

On this occasion we will witness how they negotiate (or don’t) these two parallel lines of investigation.

Lighting designer Carol Mullins

Darrell Jones

Hoo-Ha (twister pumps breakdown) Further investigations into Feminized Ritual Performance

Choreographer, performer, and teacher Darrell Jones has performed with Bebe Miller Company, Urban Bush Women, Ronald K. Brown, Min Tanaka, and Ralph Lemon, among others. Since 2007 Jones has worked with collaborators JSun Howard and Damon Greene to codify, deconstruct, and experiment with recognized voguing vocabularies. In this excerpt Jones gives us a glimpse into new explorations around Ritual Feminized Performance, a term he has coined to describe the broad canon of movement forms he and collaborators are presently engaged in.

Niall Noel Jones

forget it

Dance and performance artist Niall Noel Jones moved from Richmond, Virginia to Brooklyn, New York in 2007 where he has since been revising his relationship to, and understanding of, dance practices. In forget it Jones, Leslie Cuyjet, and Courtney Cooke are bodies enraptured in a terrific hiatus. They inhabit difficult spaces; spatial holdings that consider and recast the traversable/performative nature of interiority. These bodies contain mythologies that savagely recontextualize their place in spectatorial/experiential time.

Nicholas Leichter

Twenty

Native New Yorker Nicholas Leichter has taught throughout the United States and at festivals worldwide. Leichter founded Nicholas Leichter Dance in 1996 and has since created over 25 works for the company, as well as commissions by the likes of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Twenty deals with age, race, ethnicity, sexuality and muscle memory. Two dancers Leichter and Bryan Strimpel, twenty years apart, of completely different cultural, ethnic, racial and sexual backgrounds discover a camaraderie via dance and performance personae.

Regina Rocke

Boy Troubles

Regina Rocke was born in Englewood, New Jersey, grew up in a small Texas town, and now resides in Brooklyn, NY. Boy Troubles articulates Rocke's ever-changing relationship to masculinity and femininity, growing up as black radical feminist in a small, conservative, homophobic southern town in the '90s, and her search to find a safe place to exist as a feminist within America's patriarchal construct.