Nile Harris. Photo by Victor Jeffreys II.
The Technical Residency is closed to the public.
Nile Harris has been selected as CPR’s Spring 2024 Technical Resident, where he will develop minor b, a commission for The Shed invited as part of their 2023-24 Open Call program. During his residency, Harris will further develop the choreographic and scenographic elements of the production in collaboration with designers Marie de Testa, Dyer Rhoads, and composer Kwami Winfield, working from the biography of early Jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden, aka King Bolden, as an inception point. For the performance, the collaborative team will create an architectural response to Hudson Yards, positing The Shed's black box theater as a parallel to asylum where King Bolden spent the majority of his life playing his cornet from his storied window.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nile Harris stages meditated confrontations between performer and audience that collage various modes of communication: choreography, reappropriated and scripted text, improvisation, spatial design, and clowning. His work has been presented at the Abrons Arts Center, Palais de Tokyo, The Watermill Center, New York Live Arts, Grace Exhibition Space, and Movement Research at Judson Church. As a performer, Harris has originated roles in works by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Tina Satter, Robert Wilson, Young Boy Dancing Group, Anh Vo, Malcolm-x Betts, Crackhead Barney, and Alex Tartarsky. Harris is a member of the Artistic Leadership Team at Ping Chong and Company.