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CONVERSATION SERIES: MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY
SEASONS OF DANCE sunday, december 3, 2023 at 5:30pm veterans room
PANEL 1: THE LIVING LEGACY OF PINA BAUSCH Pina Bausch Foundation Founder and Board Member Salomon Bausch in conversation with common ground[s] co-choreographers and dancers Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo, moderated by Northwestern University Professor of Performance Studies and Theatre Thomas F. DeFrantz PANEL 2: BRINGING NEW ROOTS TO THE WORK OF PINA BAUSCH Thomas F. DeFrantz in conversation with The Rite of Spring dancers Luciény Kaabral and Tom Jules Samie Presented in conjunction with the Armory’s presentation of The Rite of Spring / common ground[s]
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The Rite of Spring/common ground[s] is made possible, in part, with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and is part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival. Public support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Harkness Foundation for Dance. Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Thompson Family Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Reed Foundation, Wescustogo Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Cover image by Stephanie Berger Photography.
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A NOTE FROM THE CURATOR To mark the occasion of The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] at Park Avenue Armory, Making Space at the Armory public programming series is honored to convene our second dance salon. Celebrating the transformative choreography of Pina Bausch, presented in tandem with a new duet by Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo, this afternoon conversation draws connections across continents, cultures, and generations of dance. It also offers a rare window into a unique collaboration among the Pina Bausch Foundation, Sadler’s Wells, and the
École des Sables. We are pleased to welcome back scholar and choreographer Thomas F. DeFrantz to moderate this salon, and to invite the voices and visions of the dance artists who are upholding the Bausch legacy and charting futures for contemporary dance in Africa. — Tavia Nyong’o, Curator of Public Programming at Park Avenue Armory
PEAT ON STAGE AND IN THE WORLD The dancers in The Rite of Spring are performing on a stage covered in peat, a spongy type of soil made from decaying leaves, stems, roots and mosses. As these materials decompose, they release nutrients that facilitate new plant growth. The performers are, quite literally, dancing on life and death, feeling, hearing, and smelling the Earth as it interacts with their movements. In its own ways, peat disrupts our understanding of the finality of death. Park Avenue Armory Curator of Public Programming, Tavia Nyong’o has invited the artist-scientist team Makalé Faber Cullen and Peter M. Groffman to bring audiences on a brief journey exploring the ecological and cultural significance of peat, specifically the world’s largest tropical peatlands in the Congo Basin. Spanning six African nations and part of a critically biodiverse ecosystem that has been sustainably stewarded by over 75 million people for generations, the Congo Basin Peatlands are also now on the frontlines of our collective efforts to mitigate the climate crisis. Scan the QR code to learn more.
NEXT IN THE SERIES RICHARD KENNEDY: GUTTURAL (CONDUCTED CONTACT)
April 12, 2024 Multidisciplinary artist Richard Kennedy presents a musical encapsulation of the African diaspora in the Armory’s historic rooms. Titled Guttural (Conducted Contact), this new work opens a portal of participatory gathering as truth emerges through song, dance, and a series of wordless conversations.
ANTAGONISMS: A GATHERING
Saturday, June 1, 2024 Led by playwright and poet Claudia Rankine, this symposium is punctuated with performances, panels, investigations of group dynamics, as well as imagined conversations between revolutionary thinkers. Participants include renowned postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, acclaimed cultural historian Saidiya Hartman, and Guggenheim fellow and choreographer Shamel Pitts.
DAY FOR NIGHT: A SALON ON ART AND NIGHTLIFE Sunday, September 8, 2024 This afternoon salon brings together scholars, writers, artists, and nightlife makers to enlighten nightlife as an art form and discover the ways social and performative dance have intertwined in recent years. Presented in conjunction with R.O.S.E., the Armory’s new commission by Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar, and Caius Pawson of Young.
CANTO DE TODES / SONG FOR ALL
Saturday, October 19, 2024 Singer and performance artist Dorian Wood exhibits a 12-hour composition and installation inspired by a lyric written by the late Chilean singer and songwriter Violeta Parr. This Armory commission spotlights timely issues of migration and emphasizes the urgency of folk music as a vessel for social change.
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Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory | 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street