In 2014, I visited MASS MoCA’s monumental exhibition of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings. I walked towards his thousands of hand-drawn pencil lines and saw them instantly as dances. I decided then to perform one.
Choreographing LeWitt is a 25-hour performance—yes, 25 hours—that uses Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #56 as a choreographic score.
I will perform the work over 5 days, this July 23-27, at Fridman Gallery in New York.
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I am asking for your help to realize this ambitious, challenging, and willfully impractical project. I am working with a team of distinguished artists, designers, and producers, each contributing to a different element of the production from wall construction to video documentation.
Our team includes sound designer DAVE RUDER, designer ROSZA DANIEL LANG/LEVITSKY, videographers MATTHEW BERNARD and ESY CASEY, speaker builders IAN MUNRO and BRIAN McCORKLE, sound tech GUS CALLAHAN, and producer DIORAMA, plus additional artists who have been involved in the development of this work.
Contributions will go towards compensating these artists for their work and skill, as well as final production costs.
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We have received funding from New Music USA/ New Music for Dance, in-kind support from the Marina Abramovic Institute, and development residencies at the Knockdown Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the Center for Performance Research. However, we need to raise an additional $4,000 to cover artist fees, final production, documentation, and post-production costs.
And this work is just the beginning!
Choreographing LeWitt is the first work in my series Re-stagings. Re-stagings reads the works of visual artists—LeWitt, Richard Serra, Robert Morris, Carl Androe, Walter de Maria—as scores for performance, unearthing the bodies and choreographies implicit in these objects, drawings and texts. Any additional funds we raise will become seed money for our development of these future works.
Many ways to help!
1) Come to the performances. As line 3,000 of this work approaches, your presence is literally animating!
2) Spread the word. We want to share this work!
3) Tell us what you thought. We want this project to spark conversation and debate!
RE-STAGINGS NO. 1: CHOREOGRAPHING LEWITT
July 23-27, 2017 | 12-6pm
Fridman Gallery | 287 Spring Street, NYC
THANK YOU! THANK YOU for your support!
