SUMMER 2021
Live performance again. We knew it was inevitable, but it still feels like a strange dream. We started making this work via Zoom, during the winter months. We convened in a park in Brooklyn in the spring, when it was warm enough. We were masked, and didn’t touch one another right away. We took care, and took our time. We connected to grass and sky. As things have shifted , so have we, and we are lifting one another up in the air again. We are ready for folx to come, and watch, and to feel that lift.
I am a new recipient of an ArtsAlive Individual Artist Grant! This support from Arts Westchester makes coming back to LIVE dance even sweeter.
I am humbled and grateful.
Won’t you join us in Katonah, NY on July 17 and 18?
The dance artists you will see are the incomparable Chelsea Hecht, Minga Prather, Courtney Lopes, Réka Echerer, Mary Lyn Graves, Cemiyon Barber, Michael Wang, Robert Burke, and Derek Crescenti.
with summer love,
Megan
Beauty Persists: Dance Installations at the Katonah Museum of Art
Saturday, July 17, 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM
Sunday, July 18, 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM
"Beauty Persists: Dance Installations at the Katonah Museum of Art" is a two-day outdoor performance series of site-adaptive contemporary dance presented by Megan Williams Dance Projects. A cast of 9 dancers will take over the Museum grounds on July 17 and 18, transforming the outdoor space through rigorous explorations of mid-pandemic joy, struggle and the desire for unity during these challenging times. The hour-long dance event will be presented twice each day and will include a post-performance conversation with the artists.
Registration required. Free with Museum admission. To register for the performance, reserve a timed ticket for the same time slot as either the 1:00 PM or 3:30 PM performance. Please be aware that elements of this event involve walking and standing as the dancers perform around the grounds of the Museum.
For tickets,
http://www.katonahmuseum.org/programs-and-events/Cladogram-BeautyPersistsDanceInstallations/
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.
