The performing arts series, Works & Process, announces two live performances of The Jazz Continuum with LaTasha Barnes on May 19, 2021 at 6pm and 8pm at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a part of New York state's "Safely Bringing Back the Arts" pilot program. Tickets for each evening go on sale 72 hours prior to each capacity-reduced performance, more information is available here: https://www.guggenheim.org/initiatives/works-process.

The Jazz Continuum with LaTasha Barnes
May 19 at 6pm and 8pm
According to dance educator and dancer LaTasha Barnes, one of the greatest disparities of the present-day dance canon is the one that exists between the African American dancer and authentic jazz dance. Barnes argues that despite the foundational role of jazz dance as a source of globally celebrated popular Black dance forms, there is a lack of contextual and performative knowledge of jazz in the African American artist, which does a disservice to the expressive purpose and possibility that is dance. With the focus and dedicated time afforded by a residency, Barnes aims to bridge the knowledge gap with a group of engaged and invested dancers who desire to embody jazz alongside the Black dance traditions they currently bear. The resulting work may manifest as a choreographed jazz dance performance or an "improvography"-centered exploration of jazz and its scions. This Works & Process commission was developed in a bubble residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation.

UPCOMING:
Unveiling by Sonya Hashem Tayeh, with music by Moses Sumney – June 1
UnderScored by Ephrat Asherie Dance, in collaboration with New York City's club legends – June 2
Rose: You Are Who You Eat by John Jarboe of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret – June 20

Works & Process bubble residencies and Works & Process reopening performances are made possible through the generosity of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and Stephen Kroll Reidy. Select projects will be featured in matinee performances at Restart Stages, made possible by Jody and John Arnhold, Arnhold Dance Innovation Fund and First Republic Bank. Restart Stages at Lincoln Center is made possible by Stavros Niarchos Foundation-Lincoln Center Agora Initiative. Major support provided by First Republic Bank. NY PopsUp is committed to the safe re-opening of New York venues with the protocols that have been established by the New York State Department of Health (DOH).

Digital Offerings
For those unable to attend performances in person, Works & Process is presenting free digital premieres coproduced with Lincoln Center, made possible by The Audrey and Martin Gruss Discovery Fund and The Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library. With Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill Mountain Foundation, and New Victory Theater. Works & Process will coproduce artists discussions and performance highlights from inside Works & Process bubble residencies. All of these offerings can be accessed on Works & Process' YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/worksandprocess) for the public to watch from home.

Works & Process at Bridge Street Theatre digital excerpts and discussions, 7:30 pm
June 1 – UnderScored by Ephrat Asherie Dance, in collaboration with New York City's club legends

Works & Process at Catskill Mountain Foundation digital excerpts and discussions, 7:30 pm
April 25 – Rhapsody in Blue, a kaleidoscope of New York by Caleb Teicher & Company with Conrad Tao
June 6 – New York Is Burning by Omari Wiles, performed by Les Ballet Afrik
June 27 – The Jazz Continuum with LaTasha Barnes
July 11 – Unveiling by Sonya Hashem Tayeh, with music by Moses Sumney