Saturday, November 2 | 3–7PM

50 Forward: “The Future Is…” Gathering

Free and open to the public with RSVP

Over the course of Danspace’s 50th year, we will be celebrating the community, artworkers, and artists that have made these 50 years so fabulous. Danspace has invited 50+ artists with special connections to Danspace to create short films in response to the prompt “The Future Is….”  Artists representing all five decades, from the 1970s to the present, were invited to record a 50-second dance or performance to be featured over the course of the year at danspaceproject.org. The short films will be screened with celebratory activities around St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, including live offerings by special guests mayfield brooks, Silas Riener, Angie Pittman, and a DJ set by Ali Rosa-Salas and Nazuk Kochhar.

Video artists are: Suzanne Bocanegra, Jonah Bokaer Choreography, Andros Zins-Browne, Wally Cardona, Peggy Cheng, Barbara Dilley, maura nguyen donohue, David Dorfman, DD Dorvillier, Douglas Dunn, Ursula Eagly, Hilary Easton, devynn emory, Ain Gordon, Miguel Gutierrez, Trajal Harrell, Deborah Hay, Jasmine Hearn, Cynthia Hedstrom, Abby Harris Holmes, John Jasperse, Benjamin Akio Kimitch, jaamil olawale kosoko, Tendayi Kuumba, Iréne Hultman Monti, Heidi Latsky, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Juliette Mapp, Bebe Miller, Rashaun Mitchell, Carol Mullins, Benedict Nguyen, Mina Nishimura, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, Eiko Otake, David Parker, Angie Pittman, Yvonne Rainer, Melinda Ring, Alice Sheppard, Sarah Skaggs, Tatyana Tenenbaum, David Thomson, Nora Raine Thompson, Muna Tseng, Niko Tsocanos, Donna Uchizono, Ogemdi Ude, Larissa Velez- Jackson, Asiya Wadud, Christopher Williams, Reggie Wilson, Nami Yamamoto, and more!

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