Image credit: Vitamin C II by DD Dorvillier & Jennifer Monson, image courtesy of the artists.

Sundays on Broadway presents an evening of performance by DD Dorvillier and Jennifer Monson with special guest Zeena Parkins and video by CW.

DD Dorvillier and Jennifer Monson’s performance, titled Vitamin C-II, extends the artists’ collaborative process/action with the audience in mind. Vitamin C is a dance, one of three dances of, not a series, but a clump—like a clump of hair. Vitamin C has shown itself too as a strategy to deepen into vertical time, to put the brakes on the rush to horizontal time, to comb out fear and hate, untangle pains, and sharpen our curls. Music by Zeena Parkins.

From the video archives, CW will show 1985.

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:

DD Dorvillier is a performer, choreographer, and teacher, born in Puerto Rico. After Bennington College she lived and worked in New York City for 20 years. In 2020 she and composer Sébastien Roux inaugurated La Corvette, a dance studio in rural France, where she currently lives. In her artistic work explorations of the sensitive body, choreographic construction, philosophy and language intersect. How and where to dance and how and why to preserve dance - how these conditions influence each other - are key questions in her current research. www.humanfuturedancecorps.org

Jennifer Monson is a choreographer who balances her artistic research and choreographic work between New York City and the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Since 1983, she has explored strategies in choreography, improvisation and collaboration in experimental dance. In 2000, her work took a turn towards the relationship between dance and environment. She is the artistic director and founder of iLAND –interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance. www.ilandart.org

New York–based electroacoustic composer/improviser Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. She has redefined the instrument’s capacities and designed a series of one-of-a-kind electric instruments. Parkins has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Doris Duke Artist award, DAAD Artist Fellowship, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts “Grant to Artists” Award, among many others, and three New York Dance and Performance Awards (“Bessies”). Her work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Sharjah Art Foundation, Donaueschingen Festival, Bang on a Can, and more. Parkins has produced dozens of recordings, including six solo harp records. Recent releases include Modesty of the Magic Thing and Lament for the Maker. www.zeenaparkins.com

Cathy Weis arrived in New York in 1984 and immersed herself in New York’s avant-garde dance community by videotaping the concerts of most downtown choreographers working in that decade. In 1993, Weis presented her first New York season with A String of Lies, a meld of dance and video; she continues with these productions, redefining the boundaries of “live” performance. In 2014, Weis opened a performance space at 537 Broadway. Eleven years later, Sundays on Broadway has grown into a valued performance venue for downtown artists.