This is No Substitute for a Dance.

This is Dance and Process.

This is our webpage.

It is ongoing.

It will not archive; it fills up and empties out. 

This is Alex Rodabaugh.

This is Kennis Hawkins.

This is Leslie Cuyjet.

[This is Kris K. Q. Pourzal by proxy.]

Our Dance and Process began just before the global shitshow of 2020.

Someone proposed a virtual format for our meetings and we tried it. 

Why not, our groupness was nice and the world seemed to be both standing still and hurtling towards death. 

We showed up for each other and kept a process going. 

Very few records of this time exist. 

They were accidentally deleted.

The vanishing is like a dance though, no? 

This is the beginning of Dance and Process 2021 and the end of Dance and Process 2020. 

This is a mystery.

This is a publication.

This is performance.

While this is no substitute, we are committed to this union.

This Process.

This will unravel onscreen.  

This will change each month. 

This will end at Queenslab, April 19 through May 20, 2021.

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December | January | February | March | April | May

Initiated in 1995, Dance and Process is The Kitchen’s longest running series. Dance and Process stages an interrogation of methods of choreographic and dance practice, whereby artists challenge default structures in their own work and the field at large. 

The Spring 2020 cohort included Leslie Cuyjet, Kennis Hawkins, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, and Alex Rodabaugh and was curated and facilitated by Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen. The group began initial meetings at The Kitchen in February and early March and was scheduled to be in residence at Queenslab in April leading up to public showings in May. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the residency and performance period couldn’t occur in shared physical space. This cohort has worked together virtually in the months since March and will continue their dialogue for Dance and Process 2021.

Image: Courtesy of the artists.


Dance and Process is made possible with commissioning support from Marta Heflin Foundation; annual grants from Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and The Harkness Foundation for Dance; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.