Images clockwise from top L: Lisa Kraus photo by @arnaudbeelenphoto at TicTac; HIJACK "2things" courtesy of the artists; lily gold "Sheshi" photo by Brian Rogers.

Sundays on Broadway and co-curators Martita Abril and Cathy Weis present an evening of dance and perfomances by lily gold, HIJACK and Lisa Kraus.

Sheshi is a duet between choreographer and interdisciplinary artist lily gold and her mother, with sound support from artist dani derks and surprise guest performers. Tuning to ancestral resilience and reviving parts lost to assimilation, their scores are transparent with tensions and explore family stories they’ve been told, as well as ones their bodies have begun to tell. While Sheshi rekindles reverence for elders it also embraces back-handed humor, working to coax exiled-aggression into balance. Leaning into play to tether the immensity of looking at ancestral trauma through a multi-generational lens, lily and Sheri offer their intimacies for resonance. An excerpt will be shown at Sundays on Broadway.

See HIJACK do 10 things. See HIJACK beneath your workout bench. See HIJACK be and build a sculpture. See HIJACK feed the fabric through the machine. See HIJACK exit. See HIJACK unable to exit. See HIJACK on ramp. See HIJACK stand on their fists. See HIJACK reverb. See HIJACK grow fancy beards. See HIJACK resume. See HIJACK’s will decay. See HIJACK spoke. See HIJACK still. See HIJACK arrive together.

LIVING ROOM DANCES are from a daily practice of improvising to Bach’s French Suites, themselves based on baroque dances. The prompts are follow first thought, go somewhere, use the eyes, shift, let go. Duet with Bach and sometimes with birdsongs. The title is because when I share the practice with an audience, it’s usually in a living room.

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:

lily gold is a choreographer, performer and visual artist, working interdisciplinarily with movement, sound, painting, and installation. lily is also a trauma therapist, witch and organizer—accountable to larger liberatory movements within and beyond creative practice. lily’s work has been presented and supported across NYC, regionally, and internationally. As a dancer, lily has collaborated with Andrea Geyer, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Tere O’Connor, Vicky Shick, and Walter Dundervill, among others. Since 2019, lily lives and works with the occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Walton, NY, and remains in relationship with their community and performance home in NYC.

HIJACK is the Minneapolis-based choreographic collaboration of Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder. HIJACK is the confluence and clash of two independent compositional/kinesthetic impulses. Embracing juxtaposition, their dances house unlikely intimates.
Over the last 32 years they have created over 100 dances and performed in venues ranging from proscenium to barely-legal. HIJACK has performed in New York (at DTW, PS122, HERE ArtCenter, Catch/Movement Research Festival, La Mama, Dixon Place, Chocolate Factory), Japan, Russia, Central America, Ottawa, Chicago, Colorado, New Orleans, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, at Fuse Box Festival in Austin Texas, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI), and Bates Dance Festival in Maine. HIJACK’s last gig in NYC was at Roulette as a trio with Lisa Nelson in her “End Plays”. Walker Art Center commissioned “redundant, ready, reading, radish, Red Eye” to celebrate twenty years of HIJACK and Contact Quarterly published the chapbook “Passing for Dance: A HIJACK Reader”.

Lisa Kraus’ dancing life began at square dances called by her father and in classes taught by Jane Dudley, an early 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 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.