DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS
Niall Jones
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Thursday, October 10 | 7:30PM
Friday, October 11 | 7:30PM
Saturday, October 12 | 7:30PM
Performers
Niall Jones with Luna Rous and Jesse Zaritt
Set, Lighting, and Sound Design
Niall Jones
Production Support
Luna Rous
Grady Shea
Moqu Alqudah
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Niall Jones is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. Niall works within a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices that move across dance, performance, sound, text, photography and video. Niall constructs immersive, liminal sites that attend to the sensual, collective registers of fiction, dis/order, dis/placement, and in/completeness. Recent performance works by Niall include: Sis Minor, in Fall (2018) at Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; Fantasies in Low Fade (2019) at the Chocolate Factory, New York, NY; A Work for Others (2021) at The Kitchen @ Queenslab, New York, NY; Open Studio (2021) at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; In the Efforts of Time (2022) at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, DE; dark de luxe: a mess for body, shadow, and other rogue im/materials (2022) at Jack Art Center, Brooklyn, NY; a n u n r e a l (2022) at The Shed, New York, NY; C O M P R E S S I O N (2022) at Performance Space New York, NY; and Hahaha (2023) as part of the School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 3, in Philadelphia.
Luna Rous (she/her) is a Belgian dancer and performance artist based between Antwerp and Philadelphia. Upon graduating from the Royal Balletschool of Antwerp in 2020, she moved to Philadelphia where she achieved her BFA in Dance at the University of the Arts. Luna has performed in works by Hélène Simoneau, Netta Yerushalmy, Niall Jones, and Jordan Lloyd, among others. Between 2017 and 2019, Luna was part of the interdisciplinary performance collective ‘Female Takeover’. In 2018, she acted in ‘Girl’, a film by Lukas D’hont which won several prizes at the Festival de Cannes. In her personal practice, Rous feels an urgency to weave a bridge between thought and art, between art and action, as well as uncovering the gradations of artistic practice building and performance.
Jesse Zaritt‘s work engages drawing as dancing – a visual and physical practice linked to dreaming, drafting, and materializing futures. His choreographic, performance and teaching practices research the ways in which excessive, contemplative and resistive dance practices change how movement arises in the world and how dancing participates in processes of social transformation. A series of solo works made between 2008 and 2022 interrogate attachments to Jewish ritual and community, seeking to queer dominant paradigms of familial/national belonging, religion, gender and sexuality. Jesse has performed his solo work in Taiwan, Uruguay, Korea, Germany, Japan, Mexico and throughout the United States. He has performed with Shen Wei Dance Arts and in the work of Netta Yerushalmy and Faye Driscoll; he worked as an artistic adviser for Driscoll’s projects through April 2023. Jesse is a faculty member of the newly formed Bennington College BFA Program in Dance and worked as an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts. He currently works in creative dialogue with Sara Shelton Mann.
Danspace Project pays respect to Lenape peoples. We acknowledge that this work is situated on the Lenape island of Manhattan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland. We pay respect to Lenape land, water, and ancestors past, present and future.
ABOUT DANSPACE PROJECT
Danspace Project presents new work in dance, supports a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourages experimentation, and connects artists to audiences. For 50 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and New York Theatre Ballet. Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative has commissioned nearly 600 new works since its inception in 1994. More about our staff, our mission, and values For information on our funders, visit danspaceproject.org/support FOLLOW US @danspaceproject danspaceproject.org