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SOLACE
SOLACE is an immersive, unconventional dance experience celebrating the beauty and communal joy found in Inwood Hill Park, inspired by the vital and life-sustaining role parks have played for New Yorkers during the pandemic. SOLACE was truly created in and for Inwood Hill Park, with every rehearsal taking place there. Audience members are free to experience the work from any vantage point, or come and go as they please, choreographing their own viewing experience.
Choreographed by Garnet Henderson.
Performed by Vanessa Knouse, Kelsey Gibbs, Jessica Ziegler, Melanie Munoz, and Garnet Henderson.
SOLACE premiered in June 2020 and was funded, in part, through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
OUR
A duet that grew out of a previous work, Our Bodies Get Too Far Apart. It carries forward the earlier dance’s themes of striving individually and together, evolving into an examination of interdependence and reliance. Our asks what we owe to one another and what it means to need another person.
Performed by Rebecca Hadley and Garnet Henderson.
OUR premiered at the Flea Theater in December 2019.
Address (film version)
A solo that embodies and challenges assumptions about women, their bodies, and what women should do with their bodies. The dance explores the consequences of living and performing under these expectations, and the difference between being looked at and being seen.
Choreographed and performed by Garnet Henderson. Cinematography by Nick Tyson. Edited by Garnet Henderson and Nick Tyson. Costume by Quinn Czejkowski.
ADDRESS premiered at the digital EstroGenius festival in March 2020. It was subsequently presented at a live version of the festival in October 2021.
Address (live version)
A solo that embodies and challenges assumptions about women, their bodies, and what women should do with their bodies. The dance explores the consequences of living and performing under these expectations, and the difference between being looked at and being seen.
Choreographed and performed by Garnet Henderson. Costume by Quinn Czejkowski.
ADDRESS was commissioned by Women in Motion, premiered at Soaking WET in May 2018, and was also performed at HERE Arts Center in 2019. It was developed in part during an artist-led residency at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.
Our Bodies Get too far apart
A dance about two people trying to be more than they are.
Performed by Rebecca Hadley and Garnet Henderson.
Our Bodies Get Too Far Apart premiered at the 92nd Street Y’s Fridays at Noon in February 2017, and was performed at HERE Arts Center in 2019.
The bird has more friends than me
A dance of social posturing. It features a cast of three women, and asks, what assumptions do we make when we see three women together? What expectations do we have of their interactions? The trio evokes a long history of pop girl groups, along with the whispers of conflict that often trail groups of successful women.
The bird has more friends than me premiered at Soaking WET in February 2015, where it was performed by Rebecca Hadley, Garnet Henderson, and Linden Hill. It was later presented as part of HIVE: New York at Triskelion Arts, where it was performed by Rebecca Hadley, Garnet Henderson, and Rebecca Aronson.
Don’t Lean on Me, Man
Two dancers navigate the intricacies and ambiguities of one-on-one interaction. As the dance becomes progressively more adventurous and complex, so, too, does the emotional relationship between the dancers.
Performed by Rebecca Hadley and Garnet Henderson.
Don’t Lean on Me, Man premiered at Soaking WET in February 2014 and was invited back for an encore performance in May 2014. It was later performed at the 92nd Street Y’s Fridays at Noon.