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Top: Photo by Federica Capo (2022), Lava Field, at the Agropoli Festival, Italy;
Christiana Axelsen, Molissa Fenley, Timothy Ward

Below: Photo by Steven Pisano (2024), Etruscan Matisse/Blake at Roulette; Christiana Axelsen, Molissa Fenley, Justin Lynch, Timothy Ward

Current and Upcoming Projects/Performances:

In New York City:

December 5-7, 2024, dancers of Marymount Manhattan College perform the premiere of Going to the Sun at the Theresa Lang Theatre, 221 E 71st St, New York, NY

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1024301733057 

May 4, 2025 - Molissa Fenley and Company perform Bardo, music by Somei Satoh, choreographed in homage to Keith Haring and premiered at his memorial on May 4, 1990. NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent's Triangle, 76 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY

In Venice, Italy

Molissa will be in residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy for three weeks, November 4 - December 2, 2025

Best wishes to all!
Love, Molissa
Photo by Steven Pisano (2024), Timothy Ward (l), Justin Lynch (r) in Entre Les Lampes

Photo by Art Davison (2024), Molissa Fenley in Double Beginning

Rhythm Field, Molissa Fenley

Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that infused her work with endurance, balance, and life force. She challenged modern dance orthodoxy and redefined the character of a woman’s moving body in the late twentieth century, bringing postmodernized ritual to the stage.

Rhythm Field is a vivid and probing portrait of Fenley’s four-decade career, written by her fellow artists. The collection functions as a multifaceted look into one woman’s complex performing arts legacy. The result is itself an aesthetic undertaking that investigates the ways in which Fenley straddles dance traditions, art genres, and gender norms and has been a model to the field. The collection offers several scholarly analyses of the choreographer’s work, and is, above all, a vibrant record from the field. Rhythm Field sits at a necessary midpoint between criticism and scholarship.

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NYC AIDS Memorial
May 4, 2025
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Dance Department at the University of Buffalo
October 10-14,2025 (tba)
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Emily Harvey Foundation
November 4 - December 2, 2025
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Energizer, 2013

Energizer, 2013 from Molissa Fenley on Vimeo.

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