Yale University Art Gallery
The Dance of Life: A Conversation with Trajal Harrell
The American dancer and choreographer Trajal Harrell, B.A. 1990, is joined in conversation by Mark D. Mitchell, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery, and Jennifer Harrison Newman, M.F.A. 2011, Associate Artistic Director, Yale Schwarzman Center, to discuss histories of physical gesture, body transformation, and “fictional archiving.” Offered in conjunction with Harrell’s performance to the jazz piano recording The Köln Concert, as well as with the Gallery’s exhibition The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Major support for The Dance of Life is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support provided by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
The work channelled his belief that dance might live up to its democratic promise. Its congregation should be open to all.
READ "Trajal Harrell: Who Gets to Own the History of Dance?" in Art Review.
9.21.24
Trajal Harrell: The Köln Concert
Commons
Trajal Harrell
9.22.24
EveryBody Dances with Ondrej Vidlar
Dance Studio
EveryBody Dances
9.23.24
Trumbull Tea: Trajal Harrell B.A. '90
Trumbull College HoC House
Trumbull Tea: Trajal Harrell B.A. '09
9.24.24
Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure)/ Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M)
32 Edgewood Gallery
Made 2 Measure at 32 Edgewood Gallery
Trajal Harrell, Photo: Orpheas Emirzas