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JUDSON CHURCH IS RINGING IN HARLEM (MADE-TO-MEASURE)

JUDSON CHURCH IS RINGING IN HARLEM (MADE-TO-MEASURE)

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May 29, 2016 to May 30, 2016

Trajal Harrell
New York

An almost completely bare stage, three men dressed in black tunics, palpable tension. The charismatic trio officiates at a liturgy of the body that conjures the mythical Judson Church in 1963. With Made-to-Measure, the New Yorker Trajal Harrell offers a splendid conclusion to his dance cycle, creating an imagined encounter between the formalism of postmodern dance, the grandeur of a chorus of mourners, and the flamboyance of voguers. Minimalism, tragedy and lascivious poses jostle together with racial segregation in a celebration of the avant-garde, as well as Afro-American and queer culture. History indeed made to measure.