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From curator Judy Hussie-Taylor:
The artists who were commissioned for the Wit & Absurdity section of Body Madness share certain characteristics: 1) they employ wit (both physical and intellectual), often with a Beckett-like humor; 2) they make work that is intentionally off-kilter, creating uncertainty in the viewer; 3) they are rigorous improvisers and place a high value on the performative unknown; 4) they walk a fine line between art and entertainment and are intentionally ambiguous about the difference; 5) there is a structural madness, just when you are convinced it’s all falling a part, it suddenly comes together.
- Desire Lines
- Danspace Project’s Platform 2011: Body Madness
- Archiving the Gesture
- Embodiment: Practice as Research
- Impossible Dance #2 (still life)
- Gathering Space
- 2018 Next Wave Festival
- Embodied Scores: Methods of Archiving
- Access as Creative Methodology
- Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
- Grandma performance tour
- Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge
- Clown Therapy
- Structural Frames: How Collections Are Built
- vanishing points: Movement Research Fall Festival
- Vault
- Darkness Odyssey
- Practices for Slow Encounters: A Festival for Camera & Body
- Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, Transmission & Understanding Symposium
- Memory House