River To River 2022 | Heather Kravas: duet/duet

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Hovering between a drawing and a dance, duet/duet happens on a field in the sunshine next to another dance that happens inside a room.

Studio A3, The Arts Center at Governors Island 110 Andes Road, Governors Island

The River To River Festival 2022

LMCC presents the 21st annual River To River Festival, Downtown New York City’s leading free summer arts festival from June 12–26, 2022.

duet/duet is a dance that happens on a field in the sunshine next to another dance that happens inside a room, overlooking a river at sunset. It is a dance created between performers opal ingle, Joey Kipp and Jennifer Kjos, in partnership with choreographer Heather Kravas. One dance contemplates a shape made between two people so that we might also consider the distance between them. The other reflects a line as two people travel and change together. What might a line endure or become? How might people draw nearer to one another? Not quite adhering to presentational expectations, the performance hovers between a drawing and a dance, intended as a vessel to experience the specific temporality of dusk.duet/duet is born from a larger, ongoing body of work entitled solid objects - a collaborative project created between Kravas and her friend, visual artist Victoria Haven. Begun in 2018, solid objects has evolved into a series of presentations in galleries, and theaters; uniting the forces of dance and drawing to push/pull at the edges of existing architectures and illuminate each physical space and audience as its own transitory charged universe.Featuring an electro-acoustic score by composer Zeena Parkins, duet/duet offers a dance built from simple shapes and lines and complex - but not necessarily difficult - feelings.CollaboratorsHeather Kravas, choreographer Jennifer Kjos, performeropal ingle, performerJoey Kipp, performerVictoria Haven, visual artZeena Parkins, acoustic score solid objects (the body of work which encompasses duet/duet) is a co-commission of Walker Art Center/Minneapolis and On the Boards/Seattle. Alongside support from LMCC, solid objects has received funding/support from the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Oxbow Gallery/Seattle, 4Culture/Seattle, The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship Award (Heather Kravas).Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef &amp; Arpels.

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