MONDAY TALKS: Ishmael Houston-Jones

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BOFFO welcomes award-winning choreographer and performer Ishmael Houston-Jones to share his work and process with the Fire Island community.

Whyte Hall

In 2016 Ishmael Houston-Jones, along with the choreographer Miguel Gutierrez and the composer Nick Hallett, created the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie Award” winning piece Variations On Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd. John Bernd was an experimental choreographer/composer/visual artist active in the downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s who died in 1988 at age 35 from AIDS complications. Houston-Jones and his collaborators wove material from seven of Bernd’s pieces, created during the last six years of his life into a fresh and profoundly poignant work.Ishmael Houston-Jones will discuss the process and challenges of collaging this work, created in crisis, into a new piece for the 21st Century.Ishmael Houston-Jones is an award-winning choreographer, author, performer, teacher, and curator. His improvised dance and text work has been performed in New York, across the US, and in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Latin America. Drawn to collaborations as a way to move beyond boundaries and the known, Houston-Jones celebrates the political aspect of cooperation. https://www.ishmaelhouston-jones.comCDC and New York State COVID guidelines apply.

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