After over 40 years, performance and video innovator Joan Jonas returns to Danspace Project with an immersive lecture-performance drawing from literature, mythology, and the artist’s collections of sketches and notes on the sea.
Moving Off the Land explores “the ocean as a poetic, totemic, and natural entity, as a life source and home to a universe of beings.” Jonas’s video, performance, and installation works often exist in transit, and are translated and restaged into other mediums.
Jonas uses herself as a screen and as a surface. Video footage of underwater scenes from Jean Painlevé’s black-and-white reels of sea creatures to shots of aquariums is poetically and associatively intersected with excerpts from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Sy Montgomery’s Soul of an Octopus, Italo Calvino’s The Aquatic Uncle, and the writings of Anne Carson
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Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land
First Preview: Jun 6, 2018
Opening Date: Jun 14, 2018
Closing Date: Jun 16, 2018
Running Time: 01:15
Playing @
St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, New York City, NY 10003
Age Guidance: 13
Audience Advisory: Engagement SOLD OUT Visit website/wait list
Performance Schedule
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
Music
- Ikue Mori
Choreography
- Joan Jonas
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Full-price tickets:
$15.00 - $25.00
Video
Accessibility
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Elevator\Escalator
None on Premises -
Parking
Street parking only -
Telephone
None on premises -
Water Fountain
Lower level -
Assisted Listening System
None available Audibility rarely an issue -
Entrance
Fully wheelchair accessible via ramp -
Restroom
A same-level restroom is available near Danspace Project’s main performance space in the church sanctuary. -
Wheelchair Info
Venue is wheelchair accessible
