Lining up: Abigail Levine performs LeWitt at Fridman Gallery

Dance artist Abigail Levine
at Fridman Gallery, SoHo
(photos ©2017, Eva Yaa Asantewaa)

Abigail Levine

Re-stagings No. 1: Choreographing LeWitt

Sound design by Dave Ruder

Fridman Gallery

Abigail Levine interprets Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #56 (1970) as a choreographic score, taking 25 hours over the course of 5 days to complete the 3,744 lines. Sound design: Dave Ruder. Choreographing LeWitt is the first in the multi-work series Re-stagings, which reads modern and postmodern visual artworks as scores for performance.

On the scaffold, she slowly walks her line, dragging splayed left hand, hip, shoulder along demarcated whiteness, smearing traces. Right hand, high, inscribing. Imperfectly, her lines marks time. A line stops. She stops, turns, regroups at its beginning, beginning beginning. A body beginning, a body makes this, lead scraping paper, with story, a woman's body.

(photos ©2017, Eva Yaa Asantewaa)

Re-stagings No. 1: Choreographing LeWitt continues tomorrow and Thursday, from noon through 6pm. Thursday's closing reception is from 6pm to 8pm. Admission is free. There are a few seats.

Fridman Gallery
287 Spring Street (near Hudson Street), Manhattan
(map/directions)

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Dance and the Occupy Movement

Movement Research presents

Dance and the Occupy Movement

Wednesday, January 25 (7:30pm)

Organized by Abigail Levine

Jimmy's no. 43, in the backroom
43 East 7th Street
between 2nd Avenue and Bowery, Manhattan
(directions)

Exploring an expanded notion of choreography and how it is related to our social and political organization and discovery of ourselves as individuals working within a temporary collective...circling and questioning around ideas of a moving community.

--Movement Research Festival Spring 2011 brochure

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

--Declaration of the Occupation, NYC General Assembly

What are the points of contact between experimental, contemporary dance and the Occupy Movement? As spatial and embodied practice? As social investigation and organization? As improvisation and movement? As agents of change? How do and might these moving communities interact? How do we approach (public and private) space in New York City? Barbara Browning, Daniel Lang-Levitsky, Paloma McGregor, Clarinda Mac Low, and Edisa Weeks open a conversation about this creative political moment.