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PERFORMA 2009: Mike Kelley, Day Is Done
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
For PERFORMA 09, Mike Kelley presented three short dance/performance pieces in the Judson Memorial Church on November 19, 2009, collectively called Day Is Done Judson Church Dance. Each was inspired by the darkly funny vignettes in his 2005 film and video installation Day Is Done, which was based on found photographs of extracurricular activities from American high school yearbooks, and re-worked for the context of the Judson Church. These performances included The Horse Dance of the False Virgin, The Judson Church Horse Dance, and the premiere of Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #33 (Ladder Piece), a work involving 13 people assembled on and around a large ladder playing music on horns. The performances feature music by Kelley and Scott Benzel--which can be listened to here--and choreography by Kate Foley. Day Is Done Judson Church Dance, and is at once abstractly hilarious and acutely, painfully nostalgic. (1 hour 11 minutes).









