Performance
Melinda Jean Myers with Laila Franklin & Kate Vincek: this time
12 Aug 2022
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 249 East Houston Street
- New York
New York - 10002
- United States
signs and symbols presents this time by Melinda Jean Myers with Laila Franklin and Kate Vincek as part of our annual summer program, artists & allies v. this time is an episodic choreographic practice that began in January 2020 in Iowa City, Iowa.
About
signs and symbols presents this time by Melinda Jean Myers with Laila Franklin and Kate Vincek as part of artists & allies v. this time is an episodic choreographic practice that began in January 2020 in Iowa City, Iowa. In response to the pandemic, the work developed into a series of nine, collaborative and site-specific choreographies that were archived over nine-months. Each iteration was made by defining the possible terms of the specific space and time, then creating the work from what felt connective, inspiring and honest for the artists to contribute. The practice became a commitment to continued creative processing during the uncertain and tenuous global landscape that framed it.
In July of 2022, the collaborators returned to Iowa City to create a long-form choreography in response to each episode. This duet contains a relationship to embodied memories, feelings and questions from the past in conversation with current desires and curiosities. While honoring and referencing what once was created, they find each other again in this work with as much presence as possible — finding a new, yet familiar topography each time.
Collaborators:
Directed by Melinda Jean Myers
Choreographed by Laila Franklin and Kate Vincek in collaboration with Melinda Jean Myers
Performed by Laila Franklin and Kate Vincek
Video Edit by Alex Dela Peña