Hans. Photo by Elyse Mertz.
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A new work by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Hans, Night Creatures is a love letter to all the men I have coiled my body around, to a love-hate relationship with New York, and to a constant wrestling match with a flamenco practice. A vespertine rumination of sexuality – from moonrise to sunrise – and the hunger, yearning, and fear that comes with being in love and lust of other male bodies. The work is also a technical exploration, having spent the residency year learning how to compose music using electronic, MIDI, and digital audio workspaces – composed while commuting through the vascular undergrounds of the NYC subway. The work is cradled by flamenco, using musical modes, movements, rhythms, melodies, and ideas, but deconstructs them to reflect a lived experience as a queer, fat-femme boy from the lush tropical fever-dream of Miami, living in NYC’s sticky, grimy, urban, angsty landscape. What does it feel like to dance House por Bulerias, move to the Fandangos of the L Train, and sing Tangos de Bushwick?
The performance will be followed by a conversation with Hans facilitated by leaders in the flamenco community on the nature of experimentation, orthodoxy, and framework of flamenco, and how it changes when it reflects non-Spanish folklore and experiences.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Hans is a dancer and tattoo artist from Miami, FL with a practice focused on dance as visual art. They have shared work with audiences in Florida and held artistic residencies in NYC. Hans has also participated in projects by Katy Pyle’s Ballez, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Peter Born. Hans describes himself and his work as the “gay lovechild of Frida Kahlo and Sailor Neptune’s lesbian love affair.”