Still from Invisible Universe by Emily Coates

Invisible Universe is a feature-length experimental documentary and dance film by Emily Coates that chronicles spontaneous collaborations between leading dance artists and scientists encountering each other for the first time within the Wright Laboratory. Part performance, part cinematic essay, the film frames the intimate, sometimes awkward, process of dialoguing across differences, staging choreographic investigation inside a physics laboratory that has been tasked with studying unseen phenomena. The film features choreographers Annie-B Parson, Ni'Ja Whitson, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner, scientists Richard Prum, David Moore, and Reina Maruyama, and research and development technician Frank Lopez. Directed by Emily Coates. Director of Photography and Editor: John Lucas. Sound Design: Evdoxia Ragkou. US, Run time: 67 minutes. Post-screening discussion moderated by Brent Hayes Edwards.

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.

Artist Bio:

Emily Coates (dancer, choreographer, writer) has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp, and Yvonne Rainer. A recipient of the Mae L. Wein Award, her career highlights include three duets with Baryshnikov, in works by Erick Hawkins, Mark Morris, and Karole Armitage. Her choreography has been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project (NYT Critic’s Pick 2017, NYT Fall Dance to Watch 2018), Performa (NYT Best Dance 2019, with Rainer), Baryshnikov Arts Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Quick Center for the Arts, Hopkins Center for the Arts, among others. In 2023, she was a featured artist in the exhibition Hard Return at the Neuberger Museum. A fellow at Center for Ballet and the Arts and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, she is Professor in the Practice and the founding Director of Dance Studies at Yale University. She co-authored Physics and Dance with physicist Sarah Demers (2019), and co-edited Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019 with Yvonne Rainer (2023). emilycoates.art