Images L to R: Ishmael Houston-Jones & Keith Hennessy, photographer unknown; Spectral Dances, American Academy of Arts and Letters, photo by Maria Baranova; Jennifer Miller and Ethan Philbrick by Anja Hitzenberger.

Co-curators Martita Abril and Cathy Weis present an evening of music and dance by Jonathan Gonzalez, Keith Hennessey & Ishmael Houston-Jones and Jennifer Miller.

Gonzalez will present a choreographic study entitled, Swerve, that explores choreographies of swerving – def: to make an abrupt change in direction against an incoming obstacle – to perform with an embodied attention to what shifts, becomes possible, and decays in the face of potential harm.

KH and IHJ will present an excerpt of their ever-evolving improvised duet, CLOSER.

Miller will show a new dance piece from her 2025 suite The Concussion Dances and will also debut the new Queer Anti Fascist String Band - Xylocarp. Collaborators include dancers David Guzman and Zo Williams as well as musicians Pher, Jules Skloot and Mary Feaster.

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:

Jonathan González is an artist and choreographer working at the intersections of performance, time-based media, and writing. He is a 2024 Herb Alpert Award Fellow (in the category of Dance), a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellow in support of his international research on Carnival/MAS Performance in the Caribbean (PRACTICE, 2022), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Grants to Artists (in the category of Performance Art, 2020). He recently completed a durational performance installation at the American Academy of Arts and Letters entitled, Spectral Dances (2024), and was an inaugural Dance Artist-in-Residence under Sarah Michelson’s platform at David Zwirner Gallery (2024). He is approaching the publication of his first book, Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars, in November 2025 (Ugly Duckling Presse). González is a faculty member with Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation in Visual Studies, and an Artist Mentor with Dia Art Foundation.

Keith Hennessy dances in and around performance. Born in northern Ontario, he has lived in San Francisco since 1982 and tours internationally. His performances engage improvisation, ritual, collaboration, and protest as tools for investigating political realities. Practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, post/Modern dance, activist art, the Bay Area, wicca, punk, contact improvisation, indigeneity, and queer-feminist performance motivate and mobilize Hennessy’s work.

Ishmael Houston-Jones is an award-winning choreographer, author, performer, teacher, and curator. His improvised dance and text work has been world-wide. Drawn to collaborations to move beyond boundaries and the known, Houston-Jones celebrates the political aspect of cooperation.

Jennifer Miller is the director and founder of Circus Amok – a one ring, no animal, queer as fuck, free circus extravaganza that has been touring the parks of New York annually since 1994. She is the writer and director of Cracked Ice and The Golden Racket. Besides touring solo shows internationally she works with a myriad of choreographers and performance artists including Jennifer Monson and Vaginal Crème Davis. She is the recipient of an OBIE, a “Bessie”, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. She had a 10 year stint at Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore and is a Professor of Performance at Pratt Institute.