“The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?” at MoMA, with Emmanuele Phuon, Patricia Hoffbauer, David Thomson, and Yvonne Rainer, 2015 (photo by Julieta Cervantes © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
The Kitchen
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
June 2-4, 8:00
212-255-5793 ext11
thekitchen.org
www.americandance.org
The new American Dance Institute initiative ADI/NYC at the Kitchen kicks off June 2-4 with the Performa presentation of legendary dancer, choreographer, and avant-garde filmmaker Yvonne Rainer’s “The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move,” an ongoing work-in-progress that combines body movement and spoken text to examine aging and mortality. The eighty-one-year-old Rainer, who has created such dances as Terrain and Two People on Bed/Table and such films as Kristina Talking Pictures and A Film About a Woman Who . . . , will perform in the work, along with dancers who are given the freedom to improvise in order to heighten the unpredictable, personal nature of the forty-five-minute piece, set to British minimalist Gavin Bryars’s “The Sinking of the Titanic.” The opening-night gala includes a champagne reception with Yvonne and the Raindears. ADI/NYC continues through July 2 with Brian Brooks’s Wilderness, Jane Comfort & Company’s You are here, Susan Marshall & Company’s Chromatic, and Jack Ferver’s I want you to want me.