Peak hour is never the best time to drive across the Brooklyn Bridge if you are in a hurry. On this occasion I had arrived by train from Boston and any delays just gave me more time to hang out of the cab window like a happy dog. Besides, the scent and sound through an open window is the right way to begin a visit to New York!
It was cloudy and almost raining as I headed to the apartment I had rented in Clinton Hill. Most streets and cities would look a little drab in this light but not New York! All a photographer has to do is find their black and white eyes and the viewfinder is filled with beautiful textures and tone. Even the grit looks fantastic.
Last month I was lucky to witness and photograph dancer Lénio Kaklea (as well as others) as part of The Performance Program at MOMA in New York. I have prepared a short slideshow of Lénio's passionate performance.
According to the MOMA website:
The Performance Program is part of MoMA’s increased focus on the historical as well as the contemporary practice of performance-based art. The ongoing series brings documentation and reenactments of historic performances, thematic group exhibitions, solo presentations, and original performance works to various locations throughout the Museum.
20 Dancers for the XX Century (2012/2013) presents a living archive. Twenty performers from various generations perform, recall, appropriate, and transmit solo works of the last century that were originally conceived or performed by some of the most significant modernist and postmodernist artists, dancers, and choreographers. Each performer presents his or her own museum of sorts, wherein the body becomes the primary museological container and object. Accordingly, there is neither a stage nor a demarcation of performance space; rather, the performers circulate freely between the Museum’s Marron Atrium, the Museum galleries, and other public spaces.
Cast: Magali Caillet-Gajan, Ashley Chen, Jim Fletcher, Brennan Gerard, Trajal Harrell, Burr Johnson, Lénio Kaklea, Catherine Legrand, Morgan Lugo, Richard Move, Mani A. Mungai, Banu Ogan, Leiomy Prodigy, Christopher Roman, Shelley Senter, Valda Setterfield, Gus Solomons, John Sorensen-Jolink, Meg Stuart, and Adam Weinert
