8:30 PM . Keith Hennessy, Bear/Skin

Motivated by grand spectacle and ambitious prayer Bear/Skin appropriates Nijinsky’s choreography for Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) to consider Modernism’s dependence on appropriations of the indigenous, folk, exotic, and oriental to ask questions about ritual and art today.

“There will be a bear dance that has nothing to do with gay bears and everything to do with Rite of Spring, teddy bears, the reconstruction of native/folk bear dances, action movies and virgin sacrifice, springtime in the northern hemisphere, the land I grew up on and where my parents are buried, and the land I now live on where my uncle and many others are buried. But it’s also about dancing and ritual and appropriation; the struggle between being both settler and indigenous, nomad-refugee and precarious freelancer. Don’t expect a lecture or much coherence. Come to heal and be healed or not.” – Keith Hennessy

THURS JAN 8, 7:00 PM
FRI JAN 9, 8:30 PM
SAT JAN 10, 7:00 PM
SUN JAN 11, 2:30 PM

RUN TIME: 65 minutes

ABRONS ARTS CENTER EXPERIMENTAL THEATER
466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org