GO AHEAD AND JUMP!

On May 12th, DANSPACE Project at St. Mark’s Chuch on East 10th Street held it’s annual fundraising gala honoring Brooklyn Museum’s Deputy Director for Institutional Advancement, Cynthia Mayeda and her long-term friend and ally, the Evel Knievel of dance, Elizabeth Streb. The night got started with cocktails in the garden followed by dinner in the main sanctuary of the Church. An ecstatic program of special performances brought down the house including CRASH AND SLIDE, choreographed by Elizabeth Streb and performed by STREB; FOR ELIZABETH, choreographed by Trisha Brown and performed by Trisha Brown and Elizabeth Streb with costumes by Elizabeth Cannon; FIRE DANCE, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith; and N’DANSPACE, created and performed by Savion Glover and Carmen Estevez.

DANSPACE Project has been supporting experimental dance and performance in New York since 1974 provoking choreographers to take risks and for the public to engage in and be transformed by the work of these artists. They hold in esteem Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Bill T. Jones, Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller and Meredith Monk as some of their alumni and challenge young emerging talent from the downtown dance community to follow in their path.