Performance | Slow Dance

Brendan Fernandes, Inaction

  • February 6, 2027 | 1 pm–4 pm

Select days, Jan 5–Feb 7

Six individuals stand in a large, minimalist room with concrete walls and a light-colored floor. Most wear form-fitting tops and bottoms, while one wears a white top and dark skirt. Two ropes hang from the ceiling, and a white rectangular frame, two black poles, and a circular mat are on the floor.

Brendan Fernandes, Inaction, 2019. Performance view, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Oct 2–Dec 8, 2019. Courtesy of the artist, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Monique Meloche Gallery and Susan Inglett Gallery.

Photo: John Groo, courtesy of Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

With Inaction, Brendan Fernandes considers how we learn to move—both physically and politically—through the built environment. Exploring how we act, what enables action, and what hinders it, dancers explore different forms of assembly and disassembly: joining hands in a circle, triumphantly climbing a sculpture, or separating to stand in static tableaux.

Performed by: Laura Baumeister, Hanna DiLorenzo, kara hunsinger, Nick Kearns, Xenia Mansour Muñiz, and “Ash” Malachi Stevens

Slow Dance

Slow Dance features artists who use performance to reclaim forms of slowness that resist the contemporary demand to constantly perform.

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