Juliette Mapp + Vicky Shick
Friday, December 18 | 7:30PM
Saturday, December 19 | 7:30PM
Juliette Mapp and Vicky Shick, friends for over 30 years, will each perform a piece reflecting their current interests in movement, structure, and meaning-making, while celebrating their connection and shared sensibility. Their first shared performance was An Evening of Days as part of Arts on Site’s The Bang Group Festival in 2024.
Returning to Danspace after more than a decade, Juliette Mapp‘s Another Free Day is a solo meditation on dancing, artistic influences, and sustaining a creative physical practice and identity. Another Free Day is a continuation of Juliette’s 30-year-long solo studio practice where she explores how dance, through its ephemeral nature, can help us be truly alive and potentially free from the fear and burden of mortality.
Vicky Shick’s Including You is a stitched-together collage of slightly askew, detailed vignettes. Physically robust and quietly pedestrian, this “remake version” lives amidst performer/artist Jon Kinzel’s singular object constructions enhancing the already glorious architectural landscape of Danspace Project’s sanctuary space. Non sequiturs gently bump up against each other, and along with sound and Kinzel’s pieces, our intimacies and vulnerabilities unfold. There’s big dancing too, all offering warmth, the familiar, and oddball camaraderie. In addition to Kinzel and Shick, Jennifer Lafferty, Marilyn Maywald Yahel, Mor Mendel, Jimena Paz, and Cherrie Yu—a cast from four continents and four decades join and inhabit this tiny respite from our world.
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Juliette Mapp is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in New York City. She has presented her work throughout New York City since 2001. She has performed in the work of many other choreographers, most notably John Jasperse, Vicky Shick and Deborah Hay. Juliette has taught throughout the world and is currently on the faculty of The New School in New York City. Juliette was a guest curator at Danspace Project where she programmed the “Back to New York City” platform. Juliette received two Bessie’s, one for dancing (2002) and one for choreography (2008).
Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC dance community for five decades, making dances since the late eighties and collaborating with various performers, choreographers, artists, lighting and sound designers. Locally, her work has been presented at Arts on Site, Danspace Project, DTW, Judson Church, The Kitchen, P.S 122, Roulette, and Sundays on Broadway. For six years she was a member of the Trisha Brown Company and has staged several of Brown’s dances including in her hometown, Budapest. In addition to teaching internationally, in the NYC area, she teaches mostly at Movement Research, for the Trisha Brown Company, and for 15 years at Hunter College. She was a two-time Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a two-time Bessie recipient, a DiP grantee at Gibney Dance Center, a grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellow.