Late-night Hennessy: special DTW deal

Keith Hennessy/Zero Performance is working a late-night gig--featuring Hennessy's solo, Antibody--at Dance Theater Workshop on Friday, April 3 at 10:30pm. What's more, if you already have a ticket for DTW's Hennessy/Melanie Maar shared program earlier that evening, you can see Hennessy in Antibody at the recession-friendly price of $5. All others pay $10.

Information and ticketing, or call 212-505-0426.

Antibody is live performance research, testing the potential of art as a liberating force, as transformative ritual, as rhetorical pedagogy, and as pleasurable entertainment.By calling the performance-action Antibody, Hennessy links the one-time-only event to a personal lineage of improvised performances, spontaneous choreographies, and real-time dancing. Costumes might change. Objects might appear. There will be talking, maybe singing, and lots of movement, dance, and physical action. Antibody has been performed in variations of 15 to 75 minutes in theaters and studios since 2000, most recently at The Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater in Chicago, October 2008.

By calling the performance-action Antibody, Hennessy links the one-time-only event to a personal lineage of improvised performances, spontaneous choreographies, and real-time dancing. Costumes might change. Objects might appear. There will be talking, maybe singing, and lots of movement, dance, and physical action. Antibody has been performed in variations of 15 to 75 minutes in theaters and studios since 2000, most recently at The Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater in Chicago, October 2008.

Nothing is scripted or choreographed in advance, but Hennessy will have access to 30 years of performance habits, training, making, and watching. It is likely that the economic disaster will be addressed. It is unlikely that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be mentioned or even referred to. Formal considerations will focus on the ritual bending of time and space, the potential for embodied intelligence to be revealed through improvised performance, and the role of the artist-audience relationship in a country at permanent war. Antibody is a performance ritual in which symbolic action in one world is intended to affect another. The goal is a lucid dream in which the body and the theatrical context become metaphors for re-visioning our personal and social fears, doubts, desires and ambitions.

Keith Hennessy is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer. He dances. Hennessy was born in Canada, lives in San Francisco and works often in Europe. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, spectacle, ritual, and public action as tools for investigating and re-visioning political realities. Alone and with others, Hennessy makes politically engaged, soul-touching performance. Hennessy directs Circo Zero Performance, a performance-making company that sometimes includes circus arts in a cross-disciplinary and body-based approach to performance art. Click here for more information.