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Trajal Harrell / Zürich Dance Ensemble

Judson Church Is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M)

In Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M), Harrell makes a full-evening work for three dancers which engages the formalism and minimalism of postmodern dance with the flamboyancy and performativity of voguing. Combining these contrasting styles, Harrell repositions the influence of jazz, funk, and rhythm-and-blues on improvisation in early postmodern dance. Likewise, aesthetic and social discourses are transformed when the postmodern dance pedestrian vocabulary of sitting and standing are re-imagined in the context of a Judson Church gathering in Harlem.

Choreography Trajal Harrell
Performers Trajal Harrell, Thibault Lac, Ondrej Vidlar
Costume Design complexgeometries
Sound Design Trajal Harrell
Technical Coordinator, Sound Santiago Latorre
Management, International Relations and Touring Björn Pätz (Zürich Dance Ensemble)
Photos Ian Douglas

Co-produced byDanspace Project for Platform 2012: Judson@50, MoMA PS1 (NewYork); Tanz im August, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin)

Residency support provided by Danspace Project and ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival (Vienna)

The commission for Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure)/TwentyLooks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M) is made possible by MoMA’sWallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the AnnenbergFoundation and by Danspace Project's 2012-2013 Commissioning Initiative, whichreceives major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Trajal Harrell / Zürich Dance Ensemble

Trajal Harrell (born in Douglas, Georgia, USA) is considered to be one of the world’s most important dancers and choreographers. In 2024, he was honored with the Silver Lion at the Biennale Danza in Venice. Combining contrasting styles, he has been reinterpreting the history of contemporary dance and its subcultures for two decades now. Harrell was inhouse director at Schauspielhaus Zürich from 2019 to 2024 and is a regular guest at the most important international dance and visual arts venues and has had his works presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Singapore International Festival of Arts amongst others. Harrell lives in Zurich. 

Dates / Booking
Saturday, 01.11.2025
Clock 20:00 — 21:00
  • Solidarity: CHF 35
  • Regular: CHF 25
  • Budget: CHF 15

Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich

  • Duration: 1h
  • English, no language necessary
  • Wheelchair accessible
Sunday, 02.11.2025
Clock 18:00 — 19:00
  • Solidarity: CHF 35
  • Regular: CHF 25
  • Budget: CHF 15

Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich

  • Duration: 1h
  • English, no language necessary
  • Wheelchair accessible