Hallie Chametzky
Hallie Chametzky is a dance artist, writer, and archivist based in East Harlem.
m i c c a and the Landscape of Grief
By Hallie ChametzkyIn a winter forest of evergreen trees on Far Rockaway Beach, P I N E exercises our collective losses.
May You Pay Attention
By Hallie ChametzkyIn TERRITORY: The Island Remembers, zavé martohardjono and a team of collaborators collide the contemporary with the ancient and the real with the imagined. Their colorful, multimodal world is a lesson in how we have harmed ours, and what it will take to heal it.
Half a Dozen Fresh Baked Dances
By Hallie ChametzkyNamed for the patisserie that once inhabited the 1920s-era building, Art Cake has taken the gallery aesthetic to the extreme with white floors, white curtains, white track lighting. Though seemingly designed for visual rather than performing arts (the floor is cement), this year’s second ever Dance Series featuring six artists showed its potential as a home for experimental dance.
HOLDTIGHT: when the blossom passes, what remains?
By Hallie Chametzkywhen the blossom passes, what remains? is ultimately a dance show. According to the program, Gussman, choreographer and founder of HOLDTIGHT, sought to model care for nature through care and healing of ourselves.
Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness
By Hallie ChametzkyCan You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is a new documentary about Bill T. Jones’s seminal, AIDS-era work. Afterwardsness, his newest production, reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing assaults on Black lives. Viewed together, they offer seemingly contradictory but ultimately profound lessons on dance’s role in moving through personal and societal grief.
