In-person Performances:

Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16, 2021

1–8pm EDT (full schedule below)

Queenslab (1611 Cody Avenue, Ridgewood, NY) and The Evergreens Cemetery (Ridgewood, NY)

Tickets are required (more information below)

Free livestream of select performances (details below):

Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16, 2021

7–8pm EDT

This is a dance.

This is a conference, a fair, a festival.

This is a show.

This is Leslie Cuyjet, Kennis Hawkins, and Alex Rodabaugh. The same Leslie, Kennis, and Alex of Dance and Process 2020. We’re far from where we began, and all the better for it. We communicated through script, code, utterances, gibberish, questioned how long the show would go on (possibly forever?). We’ve conjured voices and holes, fallen through them and landed in Ridgewood, at Queenslab and The Evergreens Cemetery.

We invite you to come on Saturday or Sunday, or both.

You can get a ticket and sit in a chair inside, or a cushion outside, or both.

First Kennis, then Leslie, then Alex. 

Come for all 3 shows.

It’s an afternoon, together.

The culmination of a group process of sharing work and feedback, This is A Dance: Dance and Process 2021 is curated and facilitated by Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen.

Performance Schedule and Ticket Information, May 15 and 16, 1–8pm EDT:

1–3:30pm at The Evergreens Cemetery
Edna Victor Edna Romeo, part 1 ––  Kennis Hawkins

Tickets: Free with RSVP

4–6pm at Queenslab
With Marion –– Leslie Cuyjet
Edna Victor Edna Romeo, part 2 ––  Kennis Hawkins

Tickets: $12. To purchase, click here.

6–7pm Outdoor Intermission

7–8pm at Queenslab or via free livestream
Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity, 2nd Edition –– Alex Rodabaugh

Tickets: $12. To purchase, click here.

There will be 4 separate, unique livestreams of Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity, 2nd Edition. Feel free to watch 1 or all 4 at the same time: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Subscribe, follow, or friend for notification.

Day Pass tickets to all performances are now sold out.

How to get there

This is a Dance: Dance and Process 2021 is hosted by The Kitchen at Queenslab (1611 Cody Avenue, Ridgewood, NY) and at The Evergreens Cemetery in Whispering Vale.

For all performances, please arrive at Queenslab. For Edna Victor Edna Romeo, part 1, you will get a map with directions to the performance location in The Evergreens Cemetery. The walk from Queenslab to the performance takes 15-20 minutes. If you anticipate requiring assistance traveling between Queenslab and The Evergreens Cemetery, please email us at boxoffice@thekitchen.org.

Safety is a thing

We ask that you stay home if you are feeling sick, if you have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days, or if you have had close contact in the past 14 days with anyone while they had COVID-19. All ticket holders will receive a health survey that they must fill out prior to their arrival at the venue.

In Queenslab:

You need to wear a mask. 

We have masks if you don’t have one.

You also need to stay in your seat. 

A break is built into the schedule.

In The Evergreens Cemetery:

There are cushions for your comfort, but you do not need to sit on them. 

You may move where you would like, respectfully (people are resting here).

We ask that you please wear your mask.

Please email boxoffice@thekitchen.org if you have any questions or specific access needs.

Image: Courtesy of Kennis Hawkins.

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.

Kennis Hawkins’s Edna Victor Edna Romeo is presented in partnership with The Evergreens Cemetery. With thanks to Julie Bose and Lauren Glennon. The Evergreens Cemetery, a historic cemetery in the “rural” style, was incorporated in 1849 and covers 225 acres. Over 526,000 people are buried here, including notables such as tap legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, jazz musician Lester Young, and painter Martin Heade. The Evergreens Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This is A Dance: Dance and Process 2021 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.

Season programming is made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors and The Kitchen Leadership Fund. To learn more about the Leadership Fund, click here.