Pas de Deux - Duo Festival

Three evenings of duo performances by artists who work together: couples, siblings, housemates, or friends.
A beautifully diverse line-up with Native American dance-music, Afro-German Total theater, Russian contemporary ballet, African-American soul music, and much more! The festival ticket gives access to the exhibition in the lovely theater gallery, where you can grab a fresh drink before or after the show.
PROGRAM
JULY 4SHELDON RAYMORE & TONY ENOS: Two-Spirit (dance, vocals) Sheldon Raymore (Cheyenne River Sioux) and Tony Enos (Echota Cherokee) generously share their deep knowledge of the land, brilliant footwork and open-hearted vocals. Traditional and contemporary worlds are merged in this musical and dancing honoring of past, present, and future Two-Spirit people from all Nations.ELENA NOTKINA & TAMARA LEIGH: Sister (dance)Elena Notkina is a Russian born dancer and choreographer. Her graceful dance feels like a breeze of fresh air, with the lightness of ballet, the power of modern dance, and the dramatic expression of St Petersburg...OXANA CHI & LAYLA ZAMI: I Step On Air (dance, theater, live-music)A lively and meditative piece blending mesmerizing dance moves, spoken words, and atmospheric original live-music (saxophone, kalimba, sounds). I Step On Air is dedicated to the Ghanian-German poet, activist and performer May Ayim, also known as the "Afro-German Audre Lorde."
JULY 5
SOPHIA MAK & BEX KWAN (Mooncake Collective): Double Yolk Moon (experimental theater)Through their friendship, Sophia Mak and Bex Kwan unearth contradictions in their relationship to family mythologies, histories of foreignness, and kinship as queer Chinese people in the United States. An auto-ethnographic performance told in shadow, sound, and movement.SATOSHI HAGA & RIE FUKUZAWA: Micro and Macro (dance, theater, visual arts)The duo known as binbinFACTORY developed a style synthesizing Western techniques of dance, mime, and drama, with Eastern forms including Japan's traditional, contemporary theater, and dance, as well as Tai Chi and Balinese dance. The performance shows that the vast universe is a reflection of the body's small, cellular universes.OXANA CHI & LAYLA ZAMI: I Step On Air (dance, theater, live-music)A lively and meditative piece blending mesmerizing dance moves, socially-conscious texts, and atmospheric original live-music (saxophone, kalimba, sounds). I Step On Air is dedicated to the Ghanian-German poet, activist and performer May Ayim, also known as the "Afro-German Audre Lorde."
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KERRY DOWNEY & KAVERI RAINA: K.2. (monotype prints and burlap painting)
Festival ticket give access to the exhibition, co-curated by Anne Patsch, before and after the show.
Downey’s and Raina’s work resides in the world of abstraction. In K.2, their work moves rhythmically, swaying together into points of shared color and form, before spinning apart into divergent worlds of expression. Their images dance in a space where language collapses, and binary classifications prove inadequate to express human experience.
MEDIA PARTNERS
International Human Rights Art Festival
Dance/NYC
WNYC