In Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M), Harrell makes a full-evening work for three dancers which engages the formalism and minimalism of postmodern dance with the flamboyancy and performativity of voguing. Combining these contrasting styles, Harrell repositions the influence of jazz, funk, and rhythm-and-blues on improvisation in early postmodern dance. Likewise, aesthetic and social discourses are transformed when the postmodern dance pedestrian vocabulary of sitting and standing are re-imagined in the context of a Judson Church gathering in Harlem.
Choreography: Trajal Harrell, Performers: Trajal Harrell, Thibault Lac, Ondrej Vidlar, Costume Design: complexgeometries, Sound Design: Trajal Harrell
Trajal Harrell (born in Douglas, Georgia, USA) is considered to be one of the world’s most important dancers and choreographers. In 2024, he was honored with the Silver Lion at the Biennale Danza in Venice. Combining contrasting styles, he has been reinterpreting the history of contemporary dance and its subcultures for two decades now. Harrell is a regular guest at the most important international dance and visual arts venues and has had his works presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Singapore International Festival of Arts amongst others.
Duration: 60 minutes
Presale: 15€ / 12€ (reduced)
Boc office: 17€ / 14 € (reduced)
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Co-produced by Danspace Project for Platform 2012: Judson@50, MoMA PS1 (New York); Tanz im August, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin).
Credits: © MoMA PS1 Ian Douglas
