DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS
Joan Jonas:
The Juniper Tree
Thursday, March 26 | 7:30PM
Friday, March 27 | 7:30PM
Saturday, March 28 | 7:30PM
Conceived and directed by
Joan Jonas
Cast
Joan Jonas, Lucy Mullican
Soundtrack by
Joan Jonas
Original Performers (1976)
Tim Burns, Simone Forti, Pooh Kaye, Lindzee Smith, Linda Zadikian
Recorded Essay by
Mark von Schlegell
Recorded “Chipping Sparrow” poem written and read by
Susan Howe
Italian folk songs contributed and sung by
Simone Forti
The Juniper Tree “Cuckoo” song sung by
Simone Forti
Crew
Ben Demarest (lighting), Ryn Doherty (props), Jake Fischer (sound), Paula Longendyke, Raquel Nicolas, Beth Zopf
Photo Credits
Peter Moore, Barbara Moore, Roberta Neiman, Jonas Tobin
THANKS
Judy Hussie-Taylor
Danspace Project Team (special thanks to Niko Tsocanos)
Freddie
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Joan Jonas is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Jonas’ experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Lucy Mullican (b. 1994) lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. In March 2022 she had her first solo exhibition, Sensed as Well as Seen, at Olympia Gallery in New York City, followed by her first European show, Fragments, at Villa Magdalena, San Sebastán, Spain in September 2022. In February 2023, Villa Magdalena also produced her second exhibition, Veils, at Galería Mascota in Mexico City. In 2024 she was in a group show, Illusive Places, in Seoul, South Korea with PACE gallery, and Illusive Places II in San Sebastián, Spain. She participated in the studio program at 99 Canal, NYC in 2024. Currently, she is preparing her third solo exhibition with Villa Magdalena in Madrid to open May 2026. Mullican’s work has been featured in group shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, and New York.
Ben Demarest (he/him) BA SUNY New Paltz. Ben is a New York based Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Educator and theater maker whose work primarily centers around contemporary dance and performance art. Recent lighting design projects include: John Jasperse “TIDES”, Julie Mayo’s “Bluefire Sleepwalker”, and La MaMa Puppet Slam. His work has been featured at New York Live Arts, Lincoln Center, Baryshnikov Art Center, Roulette, Danspace Project, Center For Performance Research, La MaMa and venues throughout the country. In 2021 his design for Julie Mayo’s “NERVE SHOW” was a NYT Critics Pick.
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 over 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.
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