Wally Cardona will hold INTERVENTION #6 on March 26 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (photo by Peggy Kaplan / artwork by Adam Shecter)
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Studio 4A
450 West 37th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Saturday, March 26, $15, 8:30
646-731-3200
www.bacnyc.org
www.wcvismorphing.org
www.arup.com
Since last fall, Brooklyn-based dancer and choreographer Wally Cardona has been staging “Interventions” in which he goes to various cities and is introduced to a local stranger who is an expert in a field other than dance, and the two collaborate for five days, then present their one-night-only work to the public. On March 26, Cardona will offer Intervention #6, the third of three Interventions at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Following his fruitful collaboration with activist and sound artist Robert Sember in January — the two developed a complex piece involving verbal and nonverbal communication and movement over the course of a series of repeated scenes, each with unique and challenging variations — and his not-quite-as-successful pairing with performance-space architect Martin Kapell, which included literary quotations and lots of time and space to kill, Cardona (Really Real, A Light Conversation) has teamed with Raj Patel, Rachid Abu-Hassan, and Terence Caulkins of Arup Acoustics and Theatre Consulting, the company behind part of the refurbishment of the Jerome Robbins Theatre at BAC. “For me,” Cardona explained in our February twi-ny talk “a powerful thing in each Intervention is not just the fact that I’m meeting a person from a very different discipline or field of inquiry but that I’m meeting a complete stranger. And with the agreement that we’ll spend a week together. The first thing that happens is I perform my ‘empty solo’ for them, and I have to confess that with each Intervention, I begin the second day wondering if the person will show up again.” The Interventions are part of a collaboration with Paris-based choreographer Jennifer Lacey, whose My First Time with a Dramaturge series will come together with Cardona’s Interventions for the larger project Tool Is Loot, with music by Berlin-based composer Jonathan Bepler. The seventh and final Intervention takes place April 23 at Dance Place in Washington, DC, with public servant Silas Grant.