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KYLE ABRAHAM — THE RUNAWAY
There are four more chances to catch THE RUNAWAY, the 30-minute dance Kyle Abraham choreographed for City Ballet's fashion gala last year.
Set to music by Nico Muhly, Jay-Z, James Blake, and Kanye West, THE RUNAWAY is part of the company's winter season New Combinations program, and will be preceded by William Forsythe 's Herman Schmerman, and a new dance by Justin Peck, Principia (music by Sufjan Stevens).
Scheduled dancers for THE RUNAWAY are Ashley Bouder, Sara Mearns, Georgina Pazcoguin, Peter Walker, Roman Mejia, Spartak Hoxha, Christopher Grant, and—a particular standout—Taylor Stanley.
THE RUNAWAY
Saturday, February 9, at 2 pm.
Sunday, February 10, at 3 pm.
Wednesday, February 27, at 7:30 pm.
Saturday, March 2, at 8 pm.
David H. Koch Theater
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York City.
From top: Taylor Stanley in Kyle Abraham's The Runaway; Abraham, courtesy the choreographer; The Runaway. Dance photographs © Paul Kolnik, courtesy New York City Ballet.
This entry was posted in DANCE, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE and tagged Ashley Bouder, Christopher Grant, Georgina Pazcoguin, Herman Schmerman (Forsythe), James Blake, Jay-Z, Justin Peck, Kanye West, Kyle Abraham, New York City Ballet, Nico Muhly, Peter Walker, Principia (Peck), Roman Mejia, Sara Mearns, Spartak Hoxha, Sufjan Stevens, Taylor Stanley, The Runaway (Abraham), william forsythe on February 8th, 2019 by Barlo Perry.
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH – DAY 3
Paris, LA began our third day at the international arts bonanza Art Basel Miami Beach at a groundbreaking for 10 Museum Park, the first residential project by famed architect Zaha Hadid in North America. The site of a former gas station, tucked between two gleaming new residential skyscrapers, 10 Museum Park will rise 60 stories above Biscayne Boulevard.
The building features Hadid's signature curves as part of an elaborate visible exoskeleton, lacing up towards the multistory aquatic center and lounge at the skyscraper's crown. The groundbreaking ceremony was packed with Miami developers and admirers of Hadid, including the Mayor of Miami, who presented the architect with a key to the city. Reserved yet gracious, she expressed happiness in being able to complete such an ambitious project.
Across the street lies the Peréz Museum of Art, whos beautiful new campus by Herzog & de Meuron was completed last year. The palm-lined courtyard features a geodesic dome by legendary architect and designer Buckminster Fuller. As part of their inaugural exhibition, the Peréz showed Global Positioning Systems, which demonstrated the international scope of its collection and the various geopolitical interests of contemporary artists. Rikrit Tirivanij, Dara Friedman, Alfredo Jaar, and Fred Wilson were particularly notable.
Next Paris, LA ventured to Miami's new design district, filled with gleaming designer stores and yet another Buckminster Fuller dome–this one the entrance to a block-sized parking structure. The de la Cruz Collection featured a number of impressively installed Aaron Curry sculptures and drawings and large works by Mark Bradford. The third floor held two notable pieces by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Portrait of Dad) and Somewhere better than this place/Nowhere better than this place, around which small crowds of people clustered, listening to docents and taking mint candies or posters.
Not far from the de la Cruz Collection, the Miami Institute of Contemporary Art featured a three-story lobby installation by Andra Ursuta, As I Lay Dying. The centerpiece was a disturbing clay figure, covered in wax–recalling a suicidal leap from the atrium's third floor or a violent rape. On the museum's upper floors, "psychiatrists" in white lab coats led visitors around Pedro Reyes' Sanatorium, a series of rooms where participants were encouraged to divulge their secrets, relieve their stress, and share their life questions.
At nearby Locust Projects, an installation by Daniel Arsham occupied the entire gallery floor. A huge circular pit dug into the floor was filled with crumbling casts of antiquated objects–boomboxes and walkmans, Super-8 and Polaroid cameras. It was quite literally a pit of obsolesence–echoed by the piece's title, Welcome to the Future. The work was reminiscent of an indigenous burial pit, where pottery and other objects are ceremonially burned.
Paris, LA finished tonight at the James Blake concert, hosted by the National YoungArts Foundation. A brilliant musical auteur from Britain, Blake's music is soulful yet dystopian–velvet melodies often fracture into mechanical rhythms and deep bass "dub" sound. His hit single "Limit to Your Love" was the perfect way to end the day.
This entry was posted in ART and tagged Aaron Curry, Alfredo Jaar, Andra Ursuta, ART BASEL, Art Basel 2014, Buckminster Fuller, Daniel Arsham, Dara Friedman, de la Cruz, Evan Moffitt, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Fred Wilson, Herzog & de Meuron, James Blake, Locust Projects, Miami, Miami ICA, Pedro Reyes, Perez Museum, Rirkrit Tirivanij, Zaha Hadid on December 7th, 2014 by Evan Moffitt.