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✨Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual✨

curated by Kyle Abraham


OPENS TONIGHT!



Nicholas Ryan Gant + Shamel Pitts

a shared evening

THURSDAY, MAY 2 | 7:30PM

FRIDAY, MAY 3 | 7:30PM

SATURDAY, MAY 4 | 7:30PM



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Shamel Pitts, little black lake of RED, Danspace Project. Photo: Rachel Keane.

Nicholas Ryan Gant, Restore: A Healing Conversation Through Music, Danspace Project. Photo: Rachel Keane.

Join us for the opening performances of Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual, curated by Kyle Abraham!


Vocalist Nicholas Ryan Gant (aka the Ghetto Falsetto) is a beloved educator who has worked with artists such as Mariah Carey, Jon Batiste, Killer Mike & Run the Jewels, and Childish Gambino, to name just a few. The 2024 Doris Duke Artist Awardee (Dance) Shamel Pitts has danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov's Hell's Kitchen Dance and Batsheva Dance Company, and is the founding artistic director of his Brooklyn-based arts collective, TRIBE.


Restore: A Healing Conversation Through Music is performed by Gant with vocalists and musicians including Bendji Allonce, Torrey Beckham, Aaron Brockett, LaChrisha C. Brown, Andre Cleghorn, and Hunter the Ultra.


little black lake of RED is a solo performed by Pitts. This is the Platform 2024 iteration of an ongoing series.


These special shared evenings embody the spirit of Abraham's curatorial inquiry.


This is a magical evening you won't want to miss!


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About Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual

Kyle Abraham. Photo: Tatiana Wills.

Danspace Project’s sixteenth Platform is guest-curated by Kyle Abraham, the Princess Grace and McArthur grant-awarded choreographer, performer, and Artistic Director of A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham. Abraham’s first evening-length work, the Bessie Award-winning The Radio Show, was commissioned and presented by Danspace Project in 2010.


Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual reflects Abraham’s interest in performers’ rituals, desires, and artistic exchanges. Describing the Platform as “a vulnerable and generative investigation that honors our prayers, practices, and predecessors,” Abraham invited artists Nicholas Ryan Gant & Shamel Pitts, taisha paggett & David Roussève, and Vinson Fraley & Bebe Miller to be in conversation with one another in a process of artistic and intergenerational exchange with the following curatorial questions in mind: 


How does nature’s relationship with humanity communicate/jostle/live in your body?

How present is a history of love in your relationship to or ritual of prayer?

How does change affect your relationship to ritual and prayer? 


Alongside the performances and exchanges, the Platform will honor Abraham’s dear friend and mentor, the choreographer and teacher Kevin Wynn with a memorial and classes taught by Jason Rodriguez.


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Platform catalogue is on sale today!


Edited by Kyle Abraham, Judy Hussie-Taylor, and Seta Morton. Contributions from: Gioncarlo Valentine, the Platform artists, Beth Gill, Carrie Schneider, Charlotte Brathwaite, Marisa Prefer, Ethan Woods, Steve Pang, and more!


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May-June 2024 at Danspace Project

featuring Platform 2024

Platform 2024

Nicholas Ryan Gant + Shamel Pitts

a shared evening


THURSDAY, MAY 2 | 7:30PM

FRIDAY, MAY 3 | 7:30PM

SATURDAY, MAY 4 | 7:30PM

GALA 2024

Honoring Kyle Abraham, Kristy Edmunds, and Carol Mullins

TUESDAY, MAY 7

Platform 2024

Kevin Wynn Memorial


SATURDAY, MAY 11 | 1-4:30PM

Platform 2024

Original Kevin Wynn Classes

Taught by Jason Rodriguez


SATURDAY, MAY 11 | 4:30-6:30PM

[FREE AS PART OF KEVIN WYNN MEMORIAL]


SATURDAY, MAY 25 | 11AM-1PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 8 | 11AM-1PM

Platform 2024

taisha paggett + David Roussève

a shared evening


THURSDAY, MAY 23 | 7:30PM

FRIDAY, MAY 24 | 7:30PM

SATURDAY, MAY 25 | 7:30PM

Platform 2024

Vinson Fraley + Bebe Miller

a shared evening


THURSDAY, JUNE 6 | 7:30PM

FRIDAY, JUNE 7 | 7:30PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 8 | 7:30PM

Platform 2024

Conversations Without Walls

Abigail DeVille, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Samora Pinderhughes, Bebe Miller, and Vinson Fraley.


SATURDAY, JUNE 8 | 1-4:30PM

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