Joanna Kotze. Photo by Mattias Givell. Courtesy the artist.
Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can
Purchase Tickets
For These are precarious times…, dancer, choreographer, and educator Joanna Kotze assembles Martita Abril, Natalie Green, Catherine Kirk, and Molly Poerstel – four artists who embody power, vulnerability, rigor, beauty, and risk in both their work and their performances – to share new work in development.
OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Joanna Kotze is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and educator. She creates highly physical dance performances through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary process, presenting ways to look at effort, labor, humor, violence, unpredictability, and beauty through movement as well as the body’s relationship to sound, light, physical materials, and space. Joanna recently received a 2024 Grants to Artists award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her piece What will we be like when we get there, was nominated for a Bessie in 2018 for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design by collaborator Ryan Seaton, and she received the Bessie for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer in 2013. Her choreography has been presented by UtahPresents, American Dance Festival, Wanås Konst, Irondale, The Yard, Bates Dance Festival, Stonington Opera House, New York Live Arts, Wexner Center, Velocity, the NAC in Ottawa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, ADI, Bard, Jacob’s Pillow, DNA, Roulette, Dixon Place, 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at Judson Church, and others. She has been supported through residencies throughout the US and Europe and has taught classes and workshops around the world. Joanna currently dances for Kimberly Bartosik (2009-present) and Stacy Spence, and has worked with Wally Cardona (2000-2010, 2018), Annie-B Parson, Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, Kota Yamazaki, Netta Yerushalmy, Sam Kim, Sarah Skaggs, Christopher Williams, the Metropolitan Opera ballet, Daniel Charon, and others. She is originally from South Africa and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University. joannakotze.com