Name: The Return of La Argentina
Start: 2015-10-25T16:00
Location: Exhibition Galleries

Performance

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Trajal Harrell. The Practice. 2014. Photograph © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Julieta Cervantes

In the latest iteration of his two-year Annenberg Research Commission Residency project In one step are a thousand animals, Trajal Harrell will perform The Return of La Argentina, inspired by Japanese dancer and choreographer Kazuo Ohno’s (1906–2010) renowned solo piece Admiring La Argentina. Dedicated to the famed Spanish dancer Antonia Mercé (1890–1936), who was known as “La Argentina,” this work was directed by Japanese choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata when it premiered in Japan in 1979 and toured to La MaMa Theater in New York in 1991. Harrell does not aim to reconstruct Ohno’s original work. Instead, he refers to his working process as a "fictional archiving,” based on personal encounters with historical source material.

This performance accompanies Trajal Harrell: In one step are a thousand animals.

Past events

Sun, Oct 25, 2015, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 2, Exhibition Galleries

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries
Sun, Oct 25, 2015, 3:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 2, Exhibition Galleries

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries
Sun, Oct 25, 2015, 12:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 2, Exhibition Galleries

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries
Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 2, Exhibition Galleries

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries
Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 11:00 a.m.

MoMA, Floor 2, Exhibition Galleries

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries

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