Performing alongside an incredible cast of six performers, every weekend for the month of October 2024 in Jonathan González’s SPECTRAL DANCES at The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1pm-5pm, Every SATURDAY & SUNDAY (FOR ALL AGES)

Free with RSVP, however you can also just come in person with RSVP!

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Choreographer Jonathan González (b. 1991, New York, NY) premieres Spectral Dances in the Library, Members’ Room, hallways, and stairwells of Arts and Letters—spaces historically open only to Arts and Letters members. To make the work, González collaborated with a cast of six Black performers (Rena Anakwe, Wayne Arthur, Chazz Giovanni, Kris Lee, Lysis, and Katrina Reid). It continues his artistic exploration of the afterlives of slavery, the built environment, and Blackness as non-performance.

Spectral Dances, which refers to ghostlike dance or dance with ghosts, is an improvisational work that asks its cast to respond to unseen aspects of Arts and Letters—what González thinks of as its hauntings. Performers react to windows, doors, and gaps between bodies; they shadow one another and the audience. What is absent, excluded, and unseen finds visibility through their movements.

https://www.artsandletters.org/events?md=2024-10-01&slug=spectral-dances-5