the CURRENT SESSIONS

08/13/2018

Join Us // HOMELAND, August 18 to 19 at Wild Project. Programming all day from 11am to 8pm, check it out at: http://www.thecurrentsessions.com/up-next/2018/8/18/volume-viii-homeland

08/22/2017

In the News // All the love to one of the most supportive of TCS, Eva Yaa Asantewaa — as well as the incredible, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar — on receiving Bessie Awards! The field of dance and performance wouldn't be the same without the important work they have and are continuing to do via The New York Dance and Performance Awards/ The Bessies:

08/20/2017

In Conversation // RESTRICT // with Dalel Bacre // arte NÓMADA, Dorian Nuskind-Oder & Simon Grenier-Poirier, and Tina Wang & Tingying Ma
An unlikely setting for the soon-to-be displaced. During the final program of Volume VII: On Resistance, artists come together through modes of restriction.
On TCS’ In Conversation, we gather RESTRICT artists Dalel Bacre // arte NÓMADA, Dorian Nuskind-Oder & Simon Grenier-Poirier, and Tina Wang & Tingying Ma to talk resistance in their own words. Click on link: http://www.thecurrentsessions.com/blog1/2017/8/20/in-conversation-restrict
See RESTRICT tonight Sunday, August 20th at 7pm.
Photo of Tina Wang by the artist
# resist

08/20/2017

A Review // Eva Yaa Asantewaa of InfiniteBody joined us for Volume VII: On Resistance at Wild Project during last night's program— REFUSE —with Jonathan Gonzalez, NIC Kay, and Samantha CC.

Read it here: https://infinitebody.blogspot.com/2017/08/whats-current-current-sessions-returns.html

Join us for our last bill of the evening— RESTRICT —with Dalel Bacre // arteNÓMADA, Dorian Nuskind-Oder & Simon Grenier-Poirier, Tina Wang & Tingying Ma. Get tickets: http://www.thecurrentsessions.com/up-next/2017/8/18/volume-vii-on-resistance

08/20/2017

REFUSE // NIC Kay's "Get Well Soon!"
Tonight is the final performance of Volume VII: On Resistance. Join us at 7pm for RESTRICT.

08/19/2017

Tonight // In tech with Jonathan Gonzalez - Join us for the second evening of Volume VII: On Resistance alongside Samantha Regina + NIC Kay.
Performance is at 8pm

08/19/2017

So much gratitude for the work of Gregory King + Megan Young - "Cloud of Whiteness"

Repost from Gregory King
When I left The Lion King, I told myself that if I were ever to perform in front of an audience, it would be in works that serve to broaden the discourse on socio-political issues. Happy to announce I have not faltered! This weekend was nothing short of magical. For a movement artist, very few things come close to performing for a packed house in New York City. Okay that was a stretch! But sharing the bill and stage of the CURRENT SESSIONS Volume VII: On Resistance, with artists doing exciting things in the field, reminded me of the power of the moving body. Collaborating with Megan Young in "Cloud of Whiteness," had allowed me to continue to question what is dance and why I dance. Physically exhausting as the work was, I am an humbled and honored to be a conduit for the much needed charge to de-center whiteness, redefine masculinity, rethink normalcy, rewrite history,reject the agenda of this inept administration, and revisit the terms under which the word "EQUAL" is used.
Photo by Jose de Quesada

08/19/2017

Tonight // Prepping with Nic Kay for tonight's show REFUSE!
Group effort—in which we find a place together amid spaces of opposition. Tonight at 8pm! http://www.thecurrentsessions.com/up-next/2017/8/18/volume-vii-on-resistance
Let's Party // Join us post show at Mockingbird Bar to sip + chat with the artists.
$4 Modellos with show of program

08/19/2017

Read Up // Dancers on where they draw the line via Movement Research, as response to Dance Magazine's "What’s Not Okay to Ask a Dancer to Do.” :

"The fact that choreographers were privileged in a story about dancers’ boundaries speaks to a persistent problem in the dance field. While in some respects we’ve come a long way, the premise of a hierarchy in dance-making has lingered: choreographers at the top, dancers at the bottom. We’ve come to expect it; the idea is so pervasive that an omission like this one can go largely unnoticed."

One of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms.

08/19/2017

Read Up // 16 members of the White House Arts Committee has resigned via The New York Times:

"All 16 of the prominent artists, authors, performers and architects on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned on Friday, the latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s defense of white nationalists after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va.

Created in 1982 under President Reagan to advise the White House on cultural issues, the committee is known for developing programs like Turnaround Arts, which aims to improve academic performance and increase student engagement through the arts."

Artists, authors, performers and others stepped down from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities after Mr. Trump’s remarks about white nationalists.

08/18/2017

Tonight // Artists Gregory King + Megan Young, Raha Behnam, and Elena Rose Lighght in the first evening of Volume VII: On Resistance // RESCUE.
Tonight's show is at 8pm! @ Wild Project

08/18/2017

Fueled By // We're 🤤 over these Pilot Kombucha flavors. Thanks for energizing our team + artists!
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