Shared Evening: Dominica Greene + Malcolm-x Betts
Thursday, December 11 | 7:30PM
Friday, December 12 | 7:30PM
Saturday, December 13 | 7:30PM
Open Dress Rehearsal*
Tuesday, December 9 | 7:30PM
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A shared evening of new work by two NYC-based dancers and choreographers Dominica Greene and Malcolm-x Betts. Both artists have previously shown work-in-development in Danspace’s DraftWork series.
Dominica Greene creates conceptual, body and time-based environments which interrogate cycles of life, death, love, and legacy. Her new work endlessend—performed by herself and Garrett Allen—ponders these here “end times,” considering all the variable outcomes in a game of life endings. “I’ll see your end and raise you a…”
Malcolm-x Betts is a visual and dance artist whose work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. Performed by Malcolm-x Betts, Molly Lieber, and GENG PTP, fly baby fly is for Betts’ older cousin Michael who died of AIDS. “It’s the end of the world; a year after Michael’s death a harp falls from the sky,” Betts writes.
*About Open Dress Rehearsal: Tuesday evening’s dress rehearsal will be free with RSVP and open to the public at limited-capacity. Open dress rehearsals are a mask-required, community-minded program prioritizing our immunocompromised and low-income audiences. Staff and audiences will be required to wear masks (N95 or KN95) and performing artists (if unmasked) will be required to test for COVID-19 (rapid tests provided by Danspace Project). This is a first-come-first-served event. Danspace will not hold late seating or a waitlist during Open Dress Rehearsals. Thank you for your understanding.
Tickets
$10 Members
$20 Regular Price
$30 A little extra
$40 A little more!
$50 Celebrating 50 years!
$100 Here’s to the next 50!
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Dominica Greene is a movement-based conceptual artist, dancer, and facilitator residing on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people. She creates body and time-based multidisciplinary environments which interrogate cycles of life, death, and love. Harnessing the elements, spirit, and womanness into an existence rooted in love, community, and regeneration, her work seeks to reflect nature –human and otherwise– as a way of highlighting humanity, the stark similarities in our differences, and our inheritances as legacies.
Greene’s large-scale installation and group works have been commissioned by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, SALT Contemporary Dance, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Her solo and interactive work has been presented by Arts on Site, BADDANCE, Black Aesthetics at the Judson Church, the Center for Performance Research (CPR,) The Carnegie Museum of Art, Gloria Strelsin Community Garden, ISSUE Project Room, Movement Research, Pioneers Go East Collective at Socrates Sculpture Park, PROCESSA on Governors Island, STILL/MOVING at Ki Smith Gallery, and Triskelion Arts. She is thrilled and honored to be presented by the historic Danspace Project!
Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts developed and presented work at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy. La Mama NYC, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts showed excerpts of Midnight Glow: Kinfolk at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Movement Research at Judson Church and Draftworks at Danspace Project. Kinfolk Vol 2: Butch Queen was persented by Judson Arts in November 2021. Betts worked on Bronx Speaks with the Bronx Musuem with undocumented immgrants. Performed in works by Snoogybox (Andy Kobilka), Nile Harris, Moriah Evans and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.
