(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (M)

FRI JAN 6 . 10:30 PM
SAT JAN 7 . 6:00 PM
SUN JAN 8 . 9:00 PM
MON JAN 9 . 6:00 PM

Run time: 90 minutes

ABRONS ARTS CENTER UNDERGROUND THEATER
466 Grand Street

(M)imosa is a choreographic collaboration between Cecilia Bengolea, Francis Chaignaud, Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Trajal Harrell. The work is the third installment of Harrell’s Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church, a series of five works in five sizes (XS to XL). The series revolves around the proposition “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”

(M)imosa is a performance by four choreographers investigating the collision of voguing culture, postmodern dance and the artists’ own personal and artistic identities, exploring the intensity of the fault between the desire and the impossibility of becoming another person.

“At the confluence of the ordinary and the spectacular are both beauty and entertainment.” – Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times

“Best of Dance 2011” – Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York

Production: VLOVAJOB PRU; Co-Production:  Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse, The Kitchen, Bomba Suicida / organisation funded by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Secretary of State for Culture/Directorate General for the Arts (DGArtes). Rehearsal space also provided by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Additional Funding has been provided by FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance). With support from La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris) and Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Francois Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea are associated artists of La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris). VLOVAJOB PRU is funded by the DRAC Poitou-Charentes and receives support from the French Institute for its overseas projects.