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Photo courtesy of Dona Ann McAdams
Ishmael Houston-Jones
THEM
7:30pm | Elebash Hall
“Aggressive and Vital” (Village Voice)
Ishmael Houston-Jones and his collaborators Chris Cocharne (music) and Dennis Cooper (text) sparked controversy in 1986 at Performance Space 122 with THEM. In the 1986 premier of the full-length version for six male dancers, Cooper read his own provocative words and Cochrane played cacophonous electric guitar live; frequently violent and exhausting dance sequences, culminated in a horrific duet between Houston-Jones and an animal carcass on a dusty mattress. The production almost got PS122 shut down. In 2010, Houston-Jones and his collaborators are revisiting the artistic impulses that propelled its original creation and reconstructing it for the contemporary moment.
Photo courtesy of Dona Ann McAdams
Ishmael Houston-Jones is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, and arts activist and has been a fixture of New York's contemporary dance scene for over three decades. His intensely personal and physically exhausting improvisations helped to redefine the language of dance in the post-Judson Church 1980s and continue to set a standard for authenticity and vulnerability on stage. His work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. As a curator, teacher, and writer, Houston-Jones has nurtured the voices of many emerging choreographers, performance artists, and artists from other disciplines, several of whom have gone on to become collaborators.ishmaelhj.com
Upcoming:
THEM AND NOW is part of the New Museum's RE:NEW RE:PLAY series, Sept 24 - Oct 14
THEM will re-premier at Performance Space 122, October 2010
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