From the starting point of what today can be referred to as “the downtown dance community,” curator Jmy Leary journeys into the recent and somewhat obscure past of the NYC dance scene with a program of rarely seen videos from New York City choreographers 1988 - 1998. The focus on the anti-institutional, side-project and alternative venue works of choreographers who never followed the rules. The screening includes excerpts of Dance Noise (1988), Nancy Meehan’s 1988, Costal Traces, Rose Anne Spradlin’s 1991 Stranger on the Shore, Paige Martin’s 1991 Threading the Cooked Carriage and Stanley Love’s 1998 Coven with and X.
This screening is part of an ongoing project to collect, archive and present videos, photographs, programs, posters, set props, sound scores, notes and other relics from the 80’s and 90’s NYC dance scene’s most influential people; their work, collaborations, politics and persuasions.
Admission is $10 and the screening begins @ 8pm