May 4-9, 2020
3-4pm Daily (East Coast Time)
Closed-Captioning and Audio Description provided for all performances
Netta Yerushalmy presents the livestream premiere of her epic work Paramodernities. The six-part encyclopedic series deconstructs historic dance works by Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Bob Fosse, Martha Graham, and Vaslav Nijinsky.
Each performance is followed by a live discussion with special guests and an interactive chat with the audience.
“Take six classic dances. Chop them up. Then tear open the modern canon, with equal parts love and fury.” – Gia Kourlas, The New York Times (April 20, 2020)
Georgina Kleege and NYU disability studies scholar Mara Mills have been involved with this project for the last couple of years. The installment directly addressing disability is on May 9. "But of course, as in all things," Georgina comments, "disability is all over the place."