Summer Stages Dance @ ICA Sneak Peek

Eiko Otake is a Japanese-born, New York–based interdisciplinary performance artist who worked for over four decades as half of the duo Eiko & Koma. Their works were commissioned by the American Dance Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. Since 2014, Otake has developed A Body in Places, a series of site-specific solo performances at more than 70 locations. A Body in Fukushima, a collaboration with photographer William Johnston, documented her five visits to post-nuclear disaster zones in Japan. The Duet Project (2018-) is an ongoing cross-disciplinary collaboration with artists as diverse as David Harrington, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Wen Hui, Joan Jonas, and Beverly McIver. Otake’s ten-year initiative I Invited Myself showcases her media works through exhibitions and screenings. Otake’s feature-length film A Body in Fukushima and documentary No Rule Is Our Rule (co-directed with Wen Hui) have been screened in film festivals worldwide.

DonChristian Jones is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter, and producer. His work spans musical and time-based performance, rap albums, video, and public murals, blending genres of painting and performance installation. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012, where he studied painting both there and abroad in Rome, Italy. Jones has shown and performed at institutions such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Center, and was a collaborating artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida with Eiko Otake. Forbes listed DonChristian’s debut album, Where There’s Smoke, as one of the ten best Hip Hop albums of 2018.

Netta Yerushalmy is a dance artist based in New York City. Her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed.

For her choreographic work, Yerushalmy has been awarded a USA Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance at Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, Van Cleef & Arpels / Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowships, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, National Dance Project Grant, LMCC’s Extended Life program, Six Points Fellowship, Cultural Leadership Fellowship from Mandel Institute, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Her work has been commissioned and presented by venues such as PEAK Performances, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Wexner Center for the Arts, La Mama, River to River Festival, Center for the Arts/Buffalo, International Dance (Jerusalem), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, ‘62 Center for the Arts/Williamstown, ODC & Bridge Project, Harkness Dance Festival, International Solo Festival (Stuttgart), and Roulette.

Yerushalmy’s work has been supported by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, UCROSS Foundation/UCLA, Watermill Center, MANCC, National Center for Choreography/Akron, Dance Initiative, Djerassi Arts Program, The Yard, Jacob’s Pillow Lab, Miami Light Project, Movement Research, Gibney’s DiP, and Trinity College.

Yerushalmy works across genres and disciplines: she contributed to artist Josiah McElheny’s Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, choreographed a Red Hot Chili Peppers music video, worked with cellist Maya Beiser and composer Julia Wolfe on Spinning, and collaborated on evenings of theory and performance at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin).