NEW MUSEUM PREMIERES PERFORMANCE WORK BY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE CAMILO GODOY

Using the New Museum's Theater as a space for rehearsal, dialogue, and collaboration, Godoy invites the public to join his evolving process, leading to a series of final performances exploring movement, breathing, and mourning practices. The title of his residency is borrowed from an embroidered work made by the queer Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión in 1995, the year before he died of AIDS-related complications. Godoy adjusts Centurión's title Renazco a cada instante (I am reborn at every moment) to "renacemos a cada instante" (we are reborn at every moment) to emphasize collective celebrations of life and death.

This evolving body of work draws on Godoy's Choreographic Studies, a personal archive and a constellation of collaged images that represent the human body performing gestures of eroticism, ecstasy, grief, and pain. Godoy sources the images from historical archives, art history, pornography, and medical materials. He intersperses them with photographs of himself and other dancers rehearsing and arranges the images in sequences of evocative poses that he treats as dance notations or instructions. Taken together, this archive presents an alternate history of emotional life, surfacing queer experiences of death, intimacy, and sexual expression. Through his collaborative and improvisatory choreographic process, Godoy's residency work will draw from this archive to develop a new performance based on mourning practices and the resilience found in pleasure.  

UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Image to Dance: Workshop with Camilo Godoy
Saturday, February 3 | 3:00 p.m.

Sound to Dance: Workshop with Camilo Godoy
Thursday, February 8 | 6:30 p.m.

Open Rehearsal and Dialogue with Camilo Godoy, Siobhan Burke, and Luis Rincon Alba
Thursday, February 22 | 6:30 p.m.

Performance: renacemos a cada instante by Camilo Godoy 
Saturday, February 24 | 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 29 | 6:30 p.m.

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