Keith Hennessy

Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world could not heal the pain, confusion, regret,
cruelty, betrayal or trauma …)

THURS JAN 6 . 7:00 PM
SAT JAN 8 . 6:30 PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE

Crotch references the images and actions of artist Joseph Beuys. On the surface the work is about art, about its histories and heroes. Deeper, a sadness grows, a queer melancholy. A song, a dance, a lecture, an image. Talking to the dead. Chaos through Play becomes Form.

Zoe | Juniper

A Crack in Everything

SAT JAN 9 . 1:00PM
SUN JAN 10 . 5:00PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street

For A Crack in Everything, Co-Artistic Director and Choreographer Zoe Scofield creates a feral ballet of aggression and catharsis inside a highly controlled, modular and crafted environment designed and built by Co-Artistic Director Juniper Shuey.

Jeremy Wade

there is no end to more

MON JAN 11 . 7:30 PM

JAPAN SOCIETY
333 East 47th Street

In a bold and violent juxtaposition of movement, text, animation and video of manga (Japanese comics) drawing, Wade takes a playful and cynical look at Japanese kawaii (cute) culture— from the infantile fluff of Hello Kitty to teenage doe-eyed love portrayed in anime— exploring its ubiquitous influence on the world today.

THERE IS NO END TO MORE from Jeremy Wade on Vimeo.

luciana achugar

Franny and Zooey

SAT JAN 9 . 1:00 PM
SUN JAN 10 . 5:00 PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street

Franny and Zooey makes the audience hyper aware of their physical presence in the theatre and their role as voyeur by bringing to the foreground the space and time gap between the process and the moment of performance.

Layard Thompson

cUp—pUck…verb-all vessel…la la la trasshhhh

SAT JAN 9 . 1:00 PM
SUN JAN 10 . 5:00 PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street

Thompson’s clownish work seriously employs psychological movement and recycled materials to question the nature of gender, sexuality, materiality, consumption and the paradox of the self as a verb.

Jack Ferver

A Movie Star Needs a Movie

SAT JAN 9 . 5:00 PM
SUN JAN 10 . 10:00 PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street

Jack Ferver’s A Movie Star Needs a Movie is a darkly satirical new work about the relationship between shallow ambition and fame.

Trajal Harrell

Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)

THURS JAN 7 . 7:00 PM
FRI JAN 8 . 8:00 PM

NEW MUSEUM
235 Bowery

Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S) takes a new critical position on postmodern dance aesthetics emanating from the Judson Church period. By developing his own work as an imaginary meeting between the aesthetics of Judson and those of a parallel historical tradition, that of Voguing, Trajal Harrell re-writes the minimalism and neutrality of postmodern dance with a new set of signs.

Ann Liv Young

Ann Liv Young Does Sherry

FRI JAN 8 . 10:00 PM
SAT JAN 9 . 5:00 PM
SUN JAN 10 . 10:00 PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street

Sherry, Ann Liv Young’s newest performance alter ego, use techniques from church, Alcoholics Anonymous and traditional psychology in her own brand of performative therapy. Sherry will tackle your issues, whether it’s marital trouble or a lack of creativity in the kitchen. While you can’t get much whiter than Sherry she is sexually and racially progressive, working alongside two colored people. And her methods, though traditional in some sense, are more likely to involve pork chops, mayonnaise and chocolate sauce than a weekly visit to your therapist. Whatever Sherry does, Ann Liv Young says it works and she has proof.

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People

LAST MEADOW

FRI JAN 8 . 7:00 PM
SAT JAN 9 . 9:30 PM
SUN JAN 10 . 1:00 PM

ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street

“I would like to write about nicer things or fiction but we shouldn’t avoid reality should we? The things I have just written are the truth. They are very hard to write about. I am lonely. Forgive me. I am lonely.” – James Dean, 1953

Last Meadow is an evening length piece using original choreography and writing mixed with movement and words from James Dean’s three movies to look at the myth of America the father, and confusion as a potentially transformative, sensory-enlivened state.

Last Meadow is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from The Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal Agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Jerome Robbins Foundation and commissioning support from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program. Last Meadow is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in partnership with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and NPN. Major contributors of NPN are the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, MetLife Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. Last Meadow is a project of Creative Capital, which currently receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The TOBY Fund, The James Irvine Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, and other individual and institutional donors. Additional support for Last Meadow has been provided by The Jerome Foundation, The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, Lambent Fellowship, a project of Tides Foundation, New York, the Josephine Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography and the generous support of individual donors. Last Meadow was developed in the following residencies: Workspace at Abrons Art Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Hollins University, Texas Woman’s University.

Jillian Peña

Polly Pocket
World Premiere