An evening of three duets by visionary artists, built on long-term creative partnerships.
From improvisation and playful experiments, to a soft collision with movement, each work has a distinct choreographic style. The evening asks us to consider different modes of relation: between artists, across decades, in conversation with lineage, and with embodied inquiry.
Photo: Rachel Keane
Fable
Bebe Miller with Angie Hauser & Darrell Jones
US Premiere
Fable is a duet performance revealing the persistent interpersonal subtext and physical mutuality that drive our particular mode of artistic inquiry. As such, it connects an audience to their own experiences of creative partnerships. It’s filtered through the collaboration between Miller, Hauser, and Jones that began with the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award-winning Verge (2001), and acknowledges their independent investigations and practices.
Fable probes findings from a 25-year perspective on the contexts of art making through the body over a lifetime, exposing the collision of their internal processes as dance artists, friends, and citizens. The title references Hauser and Jones’ signature duet Fable from Landing/Place (2005), later reimagined in A History (2012). Music, video, and performances from these archival works are tethers linking emergent creative practices from 2001’s Verge to this new work. It shares that vulnerability in an interactive format, creating something new.
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
comet, whom I love
Maurya Kerr
comet, whom I love is a duet full of rapture, orbit, intimacy, fury, and presence. The work pushes against performativity in its virtuosic embrace of simplicity, listening, and patience. “On me your voice falls as they say love should, like an enormous yes.” — Philip Levine
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
Fast Craft: Still Unlike Diving
Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters
Fast Craft: Still Unlike Diving is a new duet in the Fast Craft series by Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters. Built from fragments developed during micro-residencies with luminary dance-makers, Still Unlike Diving collages past and future—merging set and live practices steeped in attention and rooted in the pair’s shared history and heroes. Born from a collaboration decades in the making, this work resists the rush toward resolution. It is a study in pause, friction, and the beautiful collapse of certainty.
Emerging from 25 years of slow, iterative processes, the Fast Craft series draws from deep practice and deeper unlearning. Lincoln and Seiters collaborate with guest directors during condensed creative exchange, countering perfectionism, fastidiousness, and the illusion of finality. This new series challenges them to both rely on and subvert tools honed over decades, fostering artistic disruption, reinvention, and the ability to navigate uncertainty—national, physical, relational—with agency, responsiveness, and care.
Photo: Tim Richard
