3:00 pm.
Ishmael Houston-Jones & Miguel Gutierrez with Nick Hallett and Jennifer Monson

VARIATIONS ON THEMES FROM LOST AND FOUND: SCENES FROM A LIFE AND OTHER WORKS BY JOHN BERND

CO-PRESENTED BY DANSPACE PROJECT AND GIBNEY DANCE

2017 NEW YORK DANCE AND PERFORMANCE “BESSIE” AWARD

Tuesday, January 9, 8:00pm
Thursday, January 11, 7:00pm
Friday, January 12, 7:00pm
Saturday, January 13, 3:00pm & 7:00pm

Run Time: 70 minutes

Danspace Project, 131 East 10th Street, Manhattan
Advance Tickets $22 / Danspace Project Members $15 / Door Tickets $25

Single Tickets

In 1988 choreographer/dancer John Bernd died at age 35 of complications of AIDS. Bernd was a pivotal figure in the New York downtown dance scene of the early 1980s. He was one of the first persons from the community to contract HIV (though the virus had yet to be identified). He created several solos, semi-autobiographical pieces, a duet—Live Boys—made in collaboration with his then partner Tim Miller, and three versions of an ensemble dance, Lost and Found: scenes from a life. Bernd’s final piece was a duet, Two on the Loose, made in collaboration and performed with choreographer Jennifer Monson months before he died on August 28, 1988.

Conceived by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd revisits and reconstructs dances and images, and collages themes and excerpts from Bernd’s body of work to interrogate the effects of his loss on work made today. Co-Directed by Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez, in collaboration with composer Nick Hallett and Jennifer Monson.

Performances of Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd for American Realness 2018 are made possible with support from Danspace Project and Gibney Dance.

The creation of Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2016-2017 Commissioning Initiative and a Production Residency, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and by Lambent Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the James E. Robison Foundation and an Emergency Grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Additional residency support was provided by the New York State DanceForce in partnership with Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.