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Virtual viewing THIS WEEK - THURS 8/20/20 at 5PM thru TUES 8/25/20 ONLY
As part of their PlayBAC series, Baryshnikov Arts Center will stream the December 2012 production of "Scott, Queen of Marys" (originally commissioned by The Joyce Theater for the Altogether Different series in 1994). PlayBAC streaming introduced by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Doug Elkins.
Click here to view starting at 5PM on Thurs 8/20 through 8/25 ONLY.
Doug Elkins’ repertory of over 40 works was created with funding from, among others, The Pew Charitable Trust, The Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop’s First Light and Public Imaginations programs, Sequoia Foundation, Altria, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
Citation, 2008 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Frӓulein Maria
For creating a tender, rollicking excursion at Joe’s Pub called "Fräulein Maria", which took us from the snow-capped peaks of Hollywood through the worlds of “downtown” dance, Martha Graham, Willi Ninja, Balanchine, Hip-Hop, Voguing, Stepping, stomping, whirling, and flying like wild geese with the moon on their wings.
Citation, 1997 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Achievement
For walking the walk as well as talking the talk, not to mention utterly tanking what’s left of post-modernist pretension, all the while fashioning a singular provocative poetics of dancing, in "The Stuff of Recoiling" and "Center My Heart".
- Repertory (selected)
- Kintsugi 2018
- O, round desire 2017
- The Weight of Smoke 2016 *commissioned and performed by Paul Taylor American Modern Dance
- Hapless Bizarre 2014
- Mo(or)town/Redux 2012
- Fraulein Maria 2006
- Wrench(ed) 2001
- Wholly Matrimony 2000
- Last Train To Philly 1999-2000
- In Winter Stand 1999
- Bipolarbear NOS 1998
- Center My Heart 1996
- Roda 1997
- Narcoleptic Lovers 1995
- Bite the Wax Tadpole 1995
- Scott, Queen of Marys 1994
- The Stuff of Recoiling 1992
- Where Was Yvonne Rainer When I Had Saturday Night Fever? 1991
- Mo(or)town 1990
- The Testosterone Diversions 1989
- The Patrooka Variations 1988