Jérôme Bel
Artist’s Choice: MoMA Dance Company
Thu, Oct 27–Mon, Oct 31
Daily at 12:30 & 3pm
MoMA
Museum of Modern Art
Floor 2, Marron Atrium
11 West 53rd Street,
New York, NY 10019
The Museum of Modern Art will premiere a new work by Bel as part of MoMA’s longstanding Artist’s Choice series, with Artist’s Choice: Jérôme Bel / MoMA Dance Company (2016). Created specifically for the Museum’s Marron Atrium, through an open call, MoMA Dance Company brings together MoMA staff members from different departments, subverting the category of a dance company and virtuosity, as well as the exhibition series’ habitual focus on objects.
Presented by the Museum of Modern Art
Free with museum admission
Presented on the occasion of Crossing the Line Festival 2016 by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Supported by Institut français and Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York.
“There is no doubt that I am right on the fringes of the choreographic field — and I would say field, not dance — but my task is to see where I can enlarge that terrain while remaining within it.”
Jérôme Bel explores the relationship between choreography and popular culture, and dancer and spectator, often using humor as a device to break the formality of a theatre setting. Part of a generation of choreographers who rose to prominence in the mid-1990s, Bel’s work questions both art and contemporary dance. Crossing the Line 2016 will feature a focus on French choreographer Jérôme Bel, with presentations of some of his major performances.