“These women are tied together. One would carry the other across a desert, it seems, if they didn’t kill each other first.” - The New York Times
Basketball reinvents past shames as colorful, sculptural, and textural expressions. Engulfing one another with fully embodied presence, Lieber and Smith move backward and forward through time and space in a dreamlike reimagining of personal histories. Improvisation acts as an empowerment of physicality and emotionality, viscerally felt through observing the intimate, raw nature of their bodies in space.
Co-presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center and PS122 as part of COIL 2017 Festival.
Impressions of: Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith's “Basketball” as part of PS122's COIL Festival at Baryshnikov Arts Center
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Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’
Molly Lieber + Eleanor Smith
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been making experimental dances in New York since 2006. Their work is unique in that it is an equal collaboration between the two choreographers, always within the duet form, always performed by Lieber and Smith. Their most recent work Rude World, was their third project together over the past three years and premiered through PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater in the COIL 2015 Festival.