For the Moment: MICHIYAYA Dance, Alethea Pace, Georgia Wall

MAKING:TROUBLE

For the Moment, a new program curated by Senior Curatorial Director Eva Yaa Asantewaa, presents evenings of short, theme-based solo improvisations that celebrate creative response to the changing textures and energies of outer and inner worlds.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MICHIYAYA Dance presents their international founding company member and dance artist Núria Martin Fandos in For the Moment. MICHIYAYA Dance is a femme-centric contemporary dance theater company co-founded in fall 2015 by New York natives, Anya Clarke (Long Island University Brooklyn, BFA) and Mitsuko Verdery (Carnegie Mellon University, BFA). Together they produce multidisciplinary work that synthesizes Clarke’s visceral yet cerebral movement with Verdery’s contextual landscape to create work that is queer, sensual, and physical. MICHIYAYA Dance has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opportunity Fund, among others. They have been presented by Yale University, Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol Museum, La MaMa Galleria, and more. Thriving as a powerful group of femme voices, MICHIYAYA Dance has been featured by Thinx, Vice i-D, Medium, and Dance Enthusiast, among others. michiyayadance.org

Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based dancer and choreographer whose work has been presented at New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), Pregones/PRTT, the Bronx Bards Series, WestFest Dance, No Longer Empty and the Andrew Freedman Home. Her performance work has been supported by the Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award, Pepatian, Laundromat Project, Fresh Tracks, Dancing While Black, New Dance Alliance, Pregones Theater/Step Up, and 92Y Harkness Dance. She is also a 2019-2020 CUNY Dance Initiative resident artist. aletheapace.com

Georgia Wall is 32 and can’t drive. She made a public vow at a death retreat in front of a hundred people that she would learn in 2018, and now IT IS almost the end of 2019. Wall practices at making videos, poems, performances and drawings. She has shown work at Team Gallery, Document Space, Anthology Film Archives, Spectacle Theater, American Medium, New York Live Arts, HERE, AUNTS at Skirball NYU, US Blues, Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, and CATCH at The Invisible Dog. Wall is a
graduate of Oberlin College and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Photos in order from left to right: MICHIYAYA Dance by Alice Chacon, Alethea Pace by Whitney Browne, Georgia Wall by Mom.

ACCESSIBILITY

Gibney 280 Broadway is accessible via elevator from the main entrance at 53A Chambers Street.

We welcome the opportunity to make this event more accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products, so that people with chemical sensitivities can join us. Please request ASL interpreting, audio description, or open captioning 30 days before the event or submit other requests by completing our Access Requests and Inquiries Form or calling 646.837.6809 (Voice only).