Cathy Weis Projects will present two Sundays on Broadway events in May. The evenings will feature new and in-progress works by seven stellar dance artists. Both events begin at 6pm. $10 suggested donation at the door. WeisAcres is located at 537 Broadway, #3 (between Prince and Spring Streets), in Manhattan. For information about WeisAcres’ Covid safety protocols,
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Choreographer and video artist Cathy Weis launched Sundays on Broadway in May 2014. This one-of-a-kind series of performances, film screenings, readings, and discussions serves as a gathering place for artists to perform and discuss their work and processes with audiences in the intimate setting of Weis’s SoHo loft. Since its inception, the series has presented the work of 130 choreographers, filmmakers, performers, and visual artists.

May 2022 Schedule

Sunday, May 15: Molissa Fenley, Jon Kinzel, Mariana Valencia 

Molissa Fenley will present two works. The first, Variation 5, Third Construction (2022), will be performed by Christiana Axelsen, Timothy Ward, and Fenley, with music by John Cage. This dance is the concluding variation of the evening-length work Cosmati Variations (2008–2022). The second piece, Some Phrases I’m Hoping Andy Would Like (2019), choreographed and performed by Fenley, was created in honor of choreographer Andy de Groat and premiered in 2019 in concert with other performers who had worked with the late choreographer. 

Jon Kinzel’s dance considers the term “viewing audience.” It will incorporate performance and visual art, and it will be informed by his recent evening-length work, Queens Terminus, which he presented at the new Chocolate Factory Theater. 

Mariana Valencia’s work-in-progress ruminates on how she is grappling with the return to shared space and her unresolved grief. In this practice, her physical states move between the constant flux of embodied ease, rigor, and distress, focusing on the act of arrival as a promise to her practice. Her improvised scores are an interplay of choreography, original songs, and text that move between performative polish and rawness.

Sunday, May 29: Martita Abril, Wally Cardona, Ellen Fisher, Salley May 

Martita Abril is Mexican and has stated that she will do something very Mexican.

Created and performed by Wally Cardona, Son of Gone GIVEN is the third in a series of works by Cardona. It follows GIVEN on a Sunday (2019) and GIVEN in the Blackbox (2018). 

Ellen Fisher will present a solo work-in-progress entitled HOLD. 

Salley May, with collaborators/performers Annie Lanzillotto, Pedro J. Rosado Jr., and Simba Yangala, will present an opening excerpt of Lights and Sirens which will be presented in full later this year at Howl Happening Gallery.