Join us this weekend for David Roussève's new solo and taisha paggett's latest work!💎Platform 2024 continues!

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Join us for acclaimed choreographers David Roussève + taisha paggett this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday!

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Part of Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual, curated by Kyle Abraham!!!

Also check out a special Kevin Wynn master class on Saturday, May 25!

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David Roussève/REALITY: Julie Tolentino, Aziza, Charmaine Warren, Renee Redding Jones, Sondra Loring, and David Roussève. Photo courtesy David Roussève.

David Roussève is an award-winning choreographer, writer, director, and filmmaker, who founded his company, REALITY, in 1988 with beloved dancers Charmaine Warren, Julie Tolentino, Aziza, Sondra Loring, and Renee Redding Jones (pictured above). Los Angeles-based Roussève was a seminal artist in the New York scene in the 1990s, performing his early award-winning work at Danspace Project and PS122. Roussève shares the first section of his first full-length solo performance in more than 20 years. DaddyAF is an intimate and autobiographical meditation on the elusive nature of love and the very meaning of existence, exploring Roussève’s family genealogy, his roller coaster journey with HIV, and the death of his former husband of 26 years.

taisha paggett upholds dance, choreography, and its methodologies as something to break open, “a lens and lung through which to engage ideas,” they write. paggett premiered a right-angled object who lost her faith in being upright, commissioned and presented by Danspace Project, in 2013. Taking cues from writer/critic Tavia N’yongo, the weight of our relations is an attempt to “afro-fabulate” a conversation between paggett and the photographic archive of Maudelle Bass Weston (1908-1989), a prominent but under-recognized 20th century artist-dancer-model.

American Sign Language (ASL) will be provided on Friday, May 24.

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The week ends with the second of three classes in the style of Kevin Wynn, who we honored last weekend, taught by special guest Tamisha Guy. Guy currently dances with A.I.M, under Artistic Direction of Kyle Abraham, is a lecturer in the Dance Department at Barnard College, and was formerly an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Purchase College, where Wynn was a teacher and mentor, and Western Washington University. REGISTER HERE

taisha paggett. Photo: meital yaniv.

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.

Check out the calendar below!

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!