Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is an artist and choreographer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Nell Breyer speaks with choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili and dance dramaturg Katherine Profeta about recent and upcoming projects at the Whitney, MoMA PS1, and elsewhere. The three artists reflect on the “dance in museum” landscape, transmission versus transaction, embodied memory, and more.
Nell Breyer and Emily Coates continue their debate, considering recent live and digital dance productions.
What about stating the obvious? When there is significant institutional investment in the performing arts—i.e., France since the 1980s, with their “Centre Chorégraphique Nationaux (CCN)”1—the field radically expands, creators explore, and new dances flourish. The French Dance Reflections Festival in New York this past fall, presented by jewelry company Van Cleef & Arpels, really brought this home to me.
How can a dance wrap its arms around a geopolitical crisis in which over five thousand people have died just this year? Dust unfolds in a style close to Tanztheater, but with live music and vocals instead of words and narrative, creating clear segmentation, emotional specificity, and striking frameworks for each danced vignette.
