1000 Moves for Back Up Dancers at the Brick!

We have a show at the Brick this Summer! 1000 Moves for Back Up Dancers is coming to the Brick in Williamsburg July 31st, August 1st and 2nd!

This performance will be the first time this project is performed in an evening length format and I’m really honored and happy that it’s happening at the Brick.

1000 Moves for Back Up Dancers is an ongoing choreographic project I began in 2019. I’ve struggled to articulate the ambitions of this project. As an idea it seems like a joke, but the title is literal. The performance will eventually be 1000 moves, for back up dancers. (This summer’s performance we’ll probably be working with moves 1-250.) In a way few projects have done it satisfies a myriad of desires I have as an artist. My compulsion towards “collections” or looking at live performance as a museum of movement. My desire for “modular” dances, the way I want to create work that like a Rubik’s cube can have all its parts shifted, presenting new combinations and facets, while remaining the same essential thing. Finally, I think it might be the answer to a question I have, “How, with the limited funding of an independent artist, do I carry my work outside of New York? Does touring even exist as a model anymore?” When you make a modular dance you can take it apart and carry it with you more easily. You can develop new parts to fit together with old parts on new bodies in new spaces. As this project continues it will live in bodies in Chicago, maybe New Orleans, maybe LA.

Before it can travel, it needs a home, and I’m really happy to find one for this version of the project at the Brick.