Images L to R: Ellen Fisher by Ben Stechschulte; Cathy Weis & Lisa Kraus by Richard Termine; Hana van der Kolk & Eddy Levin image courtesy of the artists.

Sundays on Broadway curator Cathy Weis with co-curators David Guzman and Zo Williams present an evening of performances by Ellen Fisher, Eddy Levin & Hana van der Kolk and Cathy Weis & Lisa Kraus.

Reckon so is a short solo work in progress by Ellen Fisher. Her image-based movement piece will revolve around various personae.

Eddy Levin and Hana van der Kolk share a performance of movement, touch, sound, and stillness that emerges from a longing for unencumbered curiosity, from their listening bodies as conduits for what is here and now, from a fierce love of life.

Cathy Weis and Lisa Kraus reprise their collaboration from two years ago to uncover more possibilities. Three movers, one captured on video in 1978. A large projection. Shadows. Shifting scales. Playing tag, sharing space, and offering a fitting frame for Steve Paxton’s delicious dancing. One of the many puzzles is how to make a historic dance document feel more kinetic.

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:

Ellen Fisher’s movement performance art combines gestural actions with visual components such as film, shadow play, and puppets. Her performances are informed by research in trance dance and the rituals of South Asia, especially those of Sri Lanka. She has toured solo work in Europe and the US throughout her career, and continues to teach, perform, and collaborate with artists with a focus on community intergenerational projects. She has collaborated with Meredith Monk for more than 50 years and presently performs with her vocal ensemble.

Lisa Kraus’s dancing life began at square dances called by her father and in classes taught by Jane Dudley, an early Martha Graham dancer. She graduated from Bennington College where she took part in the early development of contact improvisation with Steve Paxton. In New York (1977- 1989), she performed in the Trisha Brown Dance Company and choreographed and performed as an independent artist and for her own company. Later ventures included teaching, curating the Performing Arts Series at Bryn Mawr College, writing extensively on dance and founding thINKingDANCE, an online dance journal and dance writers training scheme. She lives in Philadelphia, where she studies Soul Line Dance and volunteers around food insecurity.

Eddy Levin’s practice is expansive and various, a playground for cross-disciplinary collaborative making, rerouting, slowing down, deep listening, queer neurodivergent expression, and personal/communal transformation. Levin and Van der Kolk have been collaborating in dance and friendship for the last year and a half.

Hana van der Kolk is a queer dancer, artist, counselor, and facilitator collaborating on Nipmuc (Western MA) and Mohican and Haudenosaunee lands (Hudson Valley). van der Kolk spends time co-creating bridges through performance, pedagogy, celebration, queer ecology, world-making, and dismantling empire inside and out. They collaborate with Angela Beallor and Elizabeth Press (EP) as the FlagSSS Day Collective, Erica Dawn Lyle, Léa Kieffer, Dori Midnight, margit galanter, and many others. van der Kolk completed an MFA in Dance (UCLA) and a PhD in Art (RPI) where they researched queer friendship, telepathy, and technologies for re-enchantment. They are dedicated to learning and practicing an intersectional and politicized approach to art-making and somatic and healing work.

Cathy Weis is a dancer, choreographer, producer, and videographer. She has been a soloist in the Louisville Ballet, played in a cello quartet in Europe, tap-danced on the streets of San Francisco, and did a stint as a disco queen. She moved to New York City in 1983. Since then, she has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in dance and a Bessie Award for creativity. In 2014, she founded Sundays on Broadway, a showcase for choreographers and performance artists that runs two full seasons annually, and is now in its 12th consecutive year.