Requiem of Shadows

Jenn Joy, Oct. 8, 2019 2-3pm. 220 York Street room 100.

Requiem of Shadows proposes a speculative choreography arising from a beautifully wounded present in search of something else, somewhere else. Here dance imagines a serious flirtation with history made flesh, made world through invention and structural mutation. Tracing the effects of darkness, beauty, rage, love, and grief in the works of Miguel Gutierrez, Heather Kravas, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Okwui Okpokwasili entangles aesthetics and depression as sensation becomes form.

Jenn Joy is a Senior Critic in Sculpture at Yale School of Art. She is currently developing, front hall, a new publishing and curatorial initiative for choreographic practice that continues the work of collective address, a choreographic research space she founded in Brooklyn (2014-2016). She published visions (2018) and The Choreographic (MIT Press, 2014). A Contributing Editor in Performance for BOMB magazine, she also edited Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global with André Lepecki (Seagull Press, 2009); other writing has been published in Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, Memory (Wesleyan, 2018); DANSE: An Anthology (Les Presses du Réel, 2014); DANCE, (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2012), BOMB, Movement Research Performance Journal, Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She was scholar-in-residence at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in NYC where she co-edited the catalogs Diary of an Image and JUDSONOW and curated Conversations without Walls with Judy Hussie-Taylor, a series of conversations around issues in contemporary choreography.