
Upcoming events include the premiere of Rhythm Field March 17-21 at the Hope Theater on the SMU campus, Dallas, Texas. Created for sixteen dancers while in residence at SMU, Rhythm Field features an original score by Jamal Mohamed. Performances are presented both live for a limited audience and live-streamed for a virtual audience.
SALONE! an event at Roulette has been rescheduled for November 8, 2021. A preview of SALONE! will be presented on Zoom on February 21st.
Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that infused her work with endurance, balance, and life force. She challenged modern dance orthodoxy and redefined the character of a woman’s moving body in the late twentieth century, bringing postmodernized ritual to the stage.
Rhythm Field is a vivid and probing portrait of Fenley’s four-decade career, written by her fellow artists. The collection functions as a multifaceted look into one woman’s complex performing arts legacy. The result is itself an aesthetic undertaking that investigates the ways in which Fenley straddles dance traditions, art genres, and gender norms and has been a model to the field. The collection offers several scholarly analyses of the choreographer’s work, and is, above all, a vibrant record from the field. Rhythm Field sits at a necessary midpoint between criticism and scholarship.

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance
October 15-October 15, 2020-21
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The Hope Theater and on live stream
March 17-20, 9pm and March 21, 3pm ET
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Roulette
November 8, 2021, doors open 7pm, performances at 8pm
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