Images L to R: Jodi Melnick by Dean Villarini; Marguerite Hemmings by Dante Napoli; Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán by Philippa Fort.

Sundays on Broadway curator Cathy Weis with co-curators David Guzman and Zo Williams present an evening of performances by Marguerite Hemmings, Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán and Jodi Melnick.

Dancing the Dead, the Dark, and the Disappeared through movement and soundscapes Marguerite Hemmings improvises her Afro-Latinx lineage and the lost lands, grandmothers, aunties, uncles, and cousins on her father’s side.

Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán’s What Will We Do? is a rumination on the distance between what he wants to do against what he can currently physically manage. This puzzle is attempted to be worked out through repetition and variation under the strict, chronic deadline of a jaunty pulse.

Jodi Melnick is a NYC-based choreographer, performer, and teacher. Most of her time is spent in the studio moving her body alone and with others—she has done this for over three decades. For Sundays on Broadway, she, along with guest artists will present new material and revisit some old material.

Sundays on Broadway
6:00 p.m. - doors open at 5:45 p.m.
WeisAcres, 537 Broadway #3
New York, NY 10012

All donations go to the performers.
$5-20 suggested.

Artists' Bios:

Marguerite Hemmings specializes in emergent, improvisational, and social movement styles and technologies. They research the subversive role of dance and music throughout the African diaspora and channel this research through performance, body, text, social/public media, and moving image. Hemmings’s work is also embedded in alternative pedagogy and social practice/research. They have worked at University of the Arts in the School of Dance, Arizona State University, Princeton University, and many after-school programs and community centers. Hemmings has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, Dancing While Black, Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative, Arizona State University’s Projecting All Voices Fellowship, Abrons Arts Center, Headlong Performance Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mural Arts, Black Spatial Relics, and Independence Public Media Foundation to further their research.

Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán is a biracial, nonbinary, and neurodivergent performer, creator, and educator who is on a constant quest to use their work to bridge their various hyphens. Hailing from Memphis, TN, they came to New York to study at Tisch Dance, where they additionally became a dance accompanist. They have collaborated with a wide array of ensembles, including Darrah Carr Dance, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, ChristinaNoel & The Creature, and This is Not a Theatre Company, and formed a performance duo, called BREAKTIME, with classmate Holly Sass. Matthews-Guzmán currently resides in Newburgh, NY, where they accompany for local dance classes, music direct at St. George’s Episcopal Church, and facilitate a weekly community movement practice. In NYC, they accompany at Tisch, Barnard College, and the Ailey School, and assistant teach The Creature’s youth ensemble, The Ephyras.

Jodi Melnick, a NYC-based choreographer/dancer/teacher, has been part of the dance world since graduating from S.U.N.Y Purchase, with a BFA in dance in 1985. Melnick designs intricate movement to explore the exquisite nature and dynamic relationships between human beings. She uses the profound expression of the dancing body and lucid performing instincts to drive the creative process. The work is transformed through the phenomenon of dancing. “Thank you, WeisAcres, for keeping it moving.”

Special thanks to the Jacki Apple Fund and to the many generous supporters.