Head Hi presents The Daily Mirror 1976/2022

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Tuesday December 13, 2022
Atrium | Ace Hotel Brooklyn
252 Schermerhorn St.

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Head Hi is thrilled to present a live performance at Ace Hotel Brooklyn featuring the choreography of Wendy Perron and Morgan Griffin with film and photography by Babette Mangolte.

Join us for this event, a collaboration developed over the past year, followed by drinks and guest DJ in the lounge. In 1976, downtown New York dancer/choreographer Wendy Perron began an accumulating project, creating movement every day that reflected the interior and exterior landscape of that day. She titled it The Daily Mirror. In 2021, upon recently uncovering the only documentation of this practice, five pages of photos by French cinematographer Babette Mangolte, Perron asked dancer Morgan Griffin to re-imagine the work with these images as source material and provide it a new life through another dancing body. As intended, the work will be passed on to this next generation and the living archive continued through Mangolte’s photographic documentation. A limited-edition artist book has been published for the occasion and will be available for purchase at the event.

Doors open at 7:00pm.
Performance starts at 7:30pm.
Post performance celebration in the lounge at 8:30pm.

About

Morgan Griffin is a dancer and choreographer originally from Connecticut, now based in New York. She received her BA in dance with minors in English and US Government from Connecticut College (2012), her MA from NYU Steinhardt (2022) in Dance Education and her MFA from NYU Tisch Dance (2022). She danced and performed with Adele Myers and Dancers in their tour of “Einstein’s Happiest Thought” as well as with bandPortier. She has also presented her own work across New York and Connecticut. In 2017, Morgan moved to Italy for several years to pursue fashion and work in sales, marketing, and special projects, but has now turned to the pursuit of dance. She is the dance series co-curator as well as artist in residence at Art Cake NYC. She has recently performed at the West End Theater, at the Art Cake 2020 Dance Series, at Vans CH66 with Daisies NYC, choreographed work for a Paco Rabanne and Noah NYC campaigns, and consistently teaches dance to a wide range of ages and abilities. She continues to create work and collaborate, combining her interests and expanding on the concepts of imagination, discovery, inspirations and curiosity.

Wendy Perron is a dancer/choreographer turned writer/editor/scholar. She trained equally in modern dance and ballet before earning a BA from Bennington College and an MA from SUNY Empire State College. She danced with the Trisha Brown Company in the 1970s and choreographed more than 40 works for her own group, which received commissions from Lincoln Center Festival, the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Danspace Project. Perron has taught at Bennington, Princeton, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, and she has often adjudicated for ballet and choreography competitions. In the early 1990s she served as associate director of Jacob’s Pillow, where she conceived and co-directed an international intensive in improvisation. She was the editor in chief of Dance Magazine from 2004 to 2013, and has also written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, vanityfair.com, and journals in Europe and China. An authority on Judson Dance Theater and postmodern dance, Perron has lectured across the country and in Russia and China. In 2011 she was the first dance artist to be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Hall of Fame. Her second book, The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970-1975, met with acclaim when it was published in 2020. She has recently performed with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks in downtown venues. She has been on the Juilliard faculty since 2019.

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