Hallie Chametzky
Hallie Chametzky is a dance artist, writer, archivist, and organizer based in New York City.
Light Labor, Hannah Garner’s new dance theater work performed for small audiences at Green Lung Studio is an exercise in subverting expectations and undercutting clichés.
Curating from her position as a Staten Island native fed up with being referred to as the “forgotten borough,” Melissa West is optimistic about the future of dance in the borough. She hopes to prove that dance happens on Staten Island and in the process create more local support for the form.
Following their performance inspired by and created within the Toni Morrison Papers at Princeton University, artists Mame Diarra Speis and Daniel Alexander Jones reflect on what Morrison can teach us about the limitations of institutionalization and individualism in art and life.
Jody Oberfelder’s peppy, participatory dance inspired by Rube Goldberg Machines takes an optimistic view of human cause and effect.
Named 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.
when 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.
In 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.
In a winter forest of evergreen trees on Far Rockaway Beach, P I N E exercises our collective losses.
Can 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.
