DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS Andros Zins-Browne duel H Thursday, February 1 | 7:30PM Friday, February 2 | 7:30PM Saturday, February 3 | 7:30PM
Concept and Plot: Andros Zins-Browne Created with and performed by Andros Zins-Browne, Kris Lee, and Ley With: oni lem Vocalist: H Scenography: Andros Zins-Browne and Kim Schnaubert Dramaturgy: Anna Lublina Lighting: Carol Mullins Costumes: Emma Clarke Sound: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Didn't It Rain (Live, various versions) Remix: Tobias Koch Technical Direction: Niko Tsocanos Production Support: Rosaly Ruiz, Seta Morton
SUPPORT FOR DUEL H
This project was made possible through a Danspace Project-Denniston Hill Residency Partnership which was made possible with funds from the NYS DanceForce (a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts). Zins-Browne received a Danspace Project Renewal Residency with support from Mellon Foundation. This project is supported, in part, by The Cheswatyr Foundation. Residency and materials support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Materials for the Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Andros Zins-Browne (b.1981, New York) works at the intersection of performance and dance. His work extends choreographic notions into encounters with dancers, nondancers, singers, objects, and texts. Since 2016, his performance Already Unmade where he de-hearses previous works, ‘unmaking’ them, has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris. In 2019, Atlas Unlimited, a series of exhibitions in collaboration with artist Karthik Pandian, was featured at the PERFORMA19 Biennial, New York, and as a series of music videos currently on the Criterion Channel. In 2020/21, his work was commissioned for online projects by Danspace Project, the Aspen Art Museum, and Triple Canopy. In 2022, Zins-Browne premiered color a body who flees, a collaborative sound installation and performance series at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. A series of performance remixes include The Tony Cokes Remixes, 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), Dia Art Foundation (2023); See-Saw, (with Will Rawls) MoMA, New York (2019) and Asymmetry 222 (with Phoebe Berglund), Getty Museum, Los Angeles by Simone Forti; and Jérôme Bel, 1995 (2020) KADIST, Paris, in collaboration with e-flux. With Ley, Kris Lee and a host of co-conspirators, Zins-Browne premiered duel C (River-To-River Festival, 2023) a performance that ascended Outlook Hill on Governors Island, in a choreography commingling violence and care. Zins-Browne is the recipient of awards from the Goethe-Institut; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community; and New York State Council on the Arts. Kris Lee (she/they) is a New York based dancer, performer and DJ. She received her BFA in Dance from University of the Arts in 2019. Kris was a member of the Stephen Petronio Company (2021-22) and has toured with nora chipaumire (2019-20). She was one of the creators and performers for high noon (2022), the interdisciplinary performance work produced by Ninth Planet. Most recently they have performed in Remains Persist (2022) & Out of and Into: Plot (2023) By Moriah Evans; Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd (reprise) by Ishmael Houston-Jones & Miguel Gutierrez (2023); duel c by Andros Zins-Browne (2023). Lysis (aka Ley) is a transdisciplinary caretaker based in New York. H is an experimental singer, improviser and composer. Carol Mullins first designed lighting at Danspace for Andy deGroat in 1978. She has received 3 Bessies, (Dance and Performance Awards) and one Obie.
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.
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