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DraftWork: Elliot Reed + Amelia Heintzelman w/ Dorothy Carlos

Photo of Elliot Reed by Annie Forrest | Photo of Amelia Heintzelman by Maria Baranova

Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts free, informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. This afternoon features performances by two NYC-based artists: Elliot Reed and Amelia Heintzelman (with Dorothy Carlos).

Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists and DraftWork curator, Ishmael Houston-Jones.

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Elliot Reed (he/they) is an artist working in performance, sculpture, and video. Their art starts from the body, making a choreographic language through objects, installation, and sound. Elliot is a 2023/4 participant in The Whitney Independent Study Program, a 2019 danceWEB scholar, and 2019–20 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and part of the museum’s permanent collection. Reed was also the recipient of the 2019 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recent performances and exhibitions include Brown University (2024), Performance Space New York (2024), Anonymous Gallery (2023), Lucerne Festival with JACK Quartet (2022), Kunsthaus Glarus (2021), Metro Pictures (2021), MoMA PS1 (2020/21), OCD Chinatown (2021), The Getty Center (2018), Hammer Museum (2016), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (2018), The Broad (2017), including performances in Tokyo, Osaka, London, Mexico City, Zürich, Vienna, and Hamburg. His text manifesto “Performance Art Is…” was printed in The Drama Review Vol. 64, Issue 4 (248) published by MIT Press.

Amelia Heintzelman is a performer, choreographer, and teacher. Her work has been shown at Pageant, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Snug Harbor, Lubov Gallery, and University Settlement in NYC. Most recently, she has performed for Alexa West, Jesi Cook, Ayano Elson, and Deborah Hay. She teaches at Pageant and Movement Research. www.ameliakh.com

Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and electronic musician working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago. Her work utilizes randomized electronics and extended techniques to explore fragility and imaginaries.