August 28-September 1, 2024
Venue: Bainbridge Dance Center
Location: 844 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Program: Residency
Molissa is in a residency working with Christiana Axelsen to reconstruct Bardo (1990, created for and premiered at the Keith Haring Memorial at St. John the Divine on May 4, 1990) for an upcoming performance in 2025 at the invitation of the New York City AIDS Memorial, 76 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY 10011.
August 17, 2024, 8:15pm
Venue: Chautauqua Institution
Location: 1 Ames Ave, Chautauqua, NY 14722
Program: State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Cassandra Trenary performs State of Darkness with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at the closing night of the summer festival.
May 28-June 18, 2024
Venue: Marble House Project
Location: 1161 Dorset West Road, Dorset, VT 05251
Program: Residency
Molissa is in residence at the Marble House Project for three weeks imagining a new work.
April 27-September 8, 2024
Venue: Walker Art Center
Location: 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Program: Video Clones, created in collaboration with Keith Haring, is shown as part of the exhibition: Keith Haring, Art is for Everybody
Video Clones, created in collaboration with Keith Haring, is presented as part of the exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, from April 27 to September 8, 2024.
March 14, 2024, 10am
Venue: Ballet in America Lecture Series
Location: Rowe Center, Naples Art Museum, 8421 Abbington Cir, Naples, FL 34108
Program: Ballet in America - Modern Dance in America: The Choreographers and the Artists. Lecture by Iris Fanger
Iris Fanger, Ph.D., theater and dance critic
https://artisnaples.org/events/iris-fanger.2324.2?id=16645
As the style of 20th-century movement expanded into modern dance, especially in the United States, the practice of collaboration between artists continued. Among these were works by Martha Graham/Isamu Noguchi, Merce Cunningham/Jasper Johns, Trisha Brown/Robert Rauschenberg, Lucinda Childs/Sol Lewitt and Molissa Fenley/Keith Haring, augmented by composers such as John Cage. The lecture will include a discussion and films of the works they created together.
This presentation is part of Iris Fanger's Ballet in America series.
March 12, 2024, 7pm doors, concert starting time 7:45pm
Venue: Judson Memorial Church
Location: 55 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012
Program: Double Beginning, as part of Salone III
An evening presented by the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome. Featuring performances by Molissa Fenley (dance); Jay Anthony Gach (music); Bob Holman (poetry); Dan Hurlin (theater - performance on video); John Jesurun (theater); Eric Nathan (music); Newtown Odyssey (theater, music, event - Marie Lorenz, Kurt Rohde, Dana Spiotta, performance on video); Igor Santos (music).
Molissa presents Double Beginning with live poetry by Bob Holman.
January 31-February 3, 2024, 8pm
Venue: Roulette Intermedium
Location: 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Program: Etruscan Matisse/Blake, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto;
De La Lumière Entre Les Lampes, music by Philip Glass; Current Pieces #1-3, music by Vijay Iyer, Nico Muhly, JP Jofre;
Cosmati Variations, Variation 5, music by John Cage;
In the Garden (with Ryuichi), birdsong;
Lava Field, music by John Bischoff
FROM THE LIGHT, BETWEEN THE LAMPS. A collection of new and very recent work.
Premiere: Etruscan Matisse/Blake, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, 20210310
Premiere: De La Lumière, Entre Les Lampes, music by Philip Glass, New Chaconne, performed by Michael Ferrara
New York Premiere: Current Pieces #1-3 - music by Vijay Iyer, Crown Thy Good; Nico Muhly, Refine; JP Jofre, Air on America, performed on piano by Enriqueta Somarriba
New York Premiere: In the Garden (with Ryuichi)
Cosmati Variations, Variation 5, music by John Cage, Third Construction
Lava Field, music by John Bischoff, Piano 7hz
Tickets: https://roulette.org/artist/molissa-fenley/
November 11, 2023-March 17, 2024
Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario
Location: 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada
Program: Video Clones, created in collaboration with Keith Haring is shown as part of the exhibition, Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody
Video Clones, created in collaboration with Keith Haring, is presented as part of the exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, November 11, 2023 - March 17, 2024.
October 21, 2023, 5-8pm
Venue: The Dance Hub
Location: 22 East Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, California
Program: A Fundraiser for The Dance Hub,
Current Piece #1
Molissa performs Current Piece #1 as part of a fundraiser for The Dance Hub. Modern Dance Teacher Susan Alexander will be honored.
August 26-December 30, 2023
Venue: University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center youtube channel
Location: https://www.youtube.com/user/fineartscenter
Program: In the Garden (with Ryuichi) will premiere on September 7th.
In the Garden (with Ryuichi) was commissioned by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center's Asian and Asian American Arts and Culture Program.
Molissa has choreographed three dances to the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto: Esperanto (1985); The Third Coast (2015); and Baffin Island (2015). This new work is danced to the ambient sound of birdsong.
July 6 - August 1, 2023
Venue: Yaddo
Location: 312 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY
Program: Residency with occasional open showings.
Open showings: July 10 - July 14; July 16 - July 19; July 21, July 24 - July 26 - all at 3pm. July 29 at 5pm.
May 27-October 8, 2023
Venue: The Broad
Location: 221 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Program: Video Clones, shown as part of the exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody
Video Clones, created in collaboration with Keith Haring, is presented as part of the exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Broad from May 27 to October 8, 2023.
April 15 and 16, 2023
Venue: The Dance Complex
Location: 536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. 02139
Program: Taking the Long View - Molissa Fenley and Company; Nine Lives Dance/Pat Catterson
Molissa and Pat Catterson present an evening of dance. Christiana Axelsen, Molissa and Timothy Ward dance three works: Cosmati Variations, Variation 5 (John Cage, Third Construction); Lava Field (John Bischoff, Piano 7hz); Current Piece (Vijay Iyer, Crown Thy Glory).
Click for ticket links for the Taking the Long View performances:
March 6-13, 2023
Venue: Bainbridge Dance Center
Location: 844 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Program: Choreography Residency
Molissa creates a new work on company member Chrisiana Axelsen during a residency at the Bainbridge Dance Center.
January 27, 2023, 4pm
Venue: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Location: 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY. 10023
Program: Dr. Richard Move presents at Dance + Ecology: A Symposium for Climate Action
Dr. Richard Move presents as part of the Dance + Ecology symposium. He includes an examination of Molissa's 1989 solo, The Floor Dances (Requiem for the Living), sculpture by land artist, Richard Long and music by Henryk Gorecki; dancer and choreographer, Maureen Fleming in her Axis Mundi, 1988; and several “earth-body” works by the visual and performance artist Ana Mendieta, from the 1970s and early 1980s. Drawing on authors such as Donna Haraway and Mel Y. Chen, Move positions the solo works made by these artists within new materialism while, in the words of Harraway, “making kin” with both these artists and these authors. Move’s objective is to reveal, in the words of Chen, “a biopolitics that perpetually resituates, recombines, and rearticulates the matter of life - in the particularized bodies of its animals, objects, humans.”
January 14, 2023, 5pm
Venue: The Joyce Theater
Location: 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Program: State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary
Cassandra Trenary performs an excerpt from State of Darkness for Joyce Theater Productions as part of their presentations offered at this year's APAP conference.
November 4, 2022, 7-10pm
Venue: Roulette Intermedium
Location: 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Program: Lava Field - music by John Bischoff
Molissa with dancers Christiana Axelsen, Justin Lynch and Timothy Ward perform Lava Field. Music by John Bischoff, Piano 7hz. Presented as part of SALONE, an evening of performance and conversation produced by the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome.
October 27-29, 2022, 7:30pm
Venue: Baryshnikov Arts Center
Location: 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
Program: Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage. Totem Ancestor, (1942) and Loops, (1971). Molissa performs as a guest in Loops.
Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage is an evening of dance and music presenting Totem Ancestor (1942) performed by Mac Twining and Loops (1971) performed by Molissa Fenley, Justin Lynch, and Chaery Moon, both by Merce Cunningham, and six piano compositions by John Cage performed by Adam Tendler. Presented in conversation with these historic works will be new choreography by three students from The Juilliard School, developed with mentorship from Rashaun Mitchell, telemetries, a new sound composition by John King made in response to Gordon Mumma’s original score for Loops (1971), and the World Premiere of Tether by Bebe Miller, performed by Miller with Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones.
October 22, 2022
Venue: Topaz Arts
Location: 55-03 39th Avenue, Woodside, Queens
Program: Lava Field (Fenley) with Dead Stars Still Shine (Tanjuaquio), music by John Bischoff.
Molissa and Paz Tanjuaquio perform simultaneous solos. Molissa dances Lava Field as a solo and Paz dances her work Dead Stars Still Shine. Music by John Bischoff, Piano 7hz.
Saturday August 6, 8pm and Sunday August 7, 2pm
Venue: Gene Frankel Theater
Location: 24 Bond St, New York, NY 10012
Program: Molissa and Paz Tanjuaquio perform as guests in Love Story: The School of Hard Knocks
Saturday August 6, 8pm and Sunday August 7, 2pm
Molissa and Paz Tanjuaquio perform simultaneous solos as guests in Love Story: The School of Hard Knocks. Molissa dances Lava Field as a solo and Paz dances her work Dead Stars Still Shine. Music by John Bischoff, Piano 7hz
July 23, 2022, 9pm
Venue: Agropoli Danza Festival
Location: Castello Angioino Aragonese
Program: Cosmati Variations, part III
The dancers of the Dance HUB perform Cosmati Variations, part III as part of the evening's concert of works presented by WADE.
July 22, 2022, 9pm
Venue: Agropoli Danza Festival
Location: Castello Angioino Aragonese
Program: Cosmati Variations, parts I-V, Lava Field and Mali
Molissa with dancers Christiana Axelsen, Jared Brown and Timothy Ward perform Cosmati Variations, parts I-V at the Agropoli Danza Festival. Dancers from the Dance HUB residency will perform Cosmati Variations, part III.
Also on the program, Lava Field and Mali.
July 17-23, 2022
Venue: Residency with the Dance HUB
Location: Agropoli, Italy
Program: Teaching and Choreographic Residency
Molissa with dancers Christiana Axelsen, Jared Brown and Timothy Ward enjoy a residency in Agropoli, Italy as part of the festivities of the Dance HUB. Organized by WADE. Molissa will teach Cosmati Variations, part III to the dancers who have been invited to perform the work within the Company's performance on July 22.
May 15, 2022, at 6pm
Venue: Cathy Weis Projects - Sundays on Broadway
Location: 537 Broadway #3, New York, NY. 10012
Program: Cosmati Variations, variation 5 and Some Phrases I'm Hoping Andy Would Like
Christiana Axelsen, Molissa Fenley and Timothy Ward perform the fifth and concluding variation of Cosmati Variations - music by John Cage, Third Construction (1940). Also on the program a reprise of Some Phrases I'm Hoping Andy Would Like (created in homage to choreographer Andy de Groat and premiered at a memorial concert at Judson Church in 2019).
March 1 to April 31, 2022
Venue: The Segal Center Film Festival
Location: online
Program: State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary. Filmed by Nel Shelby
State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary, is screened as part of the Segal Center's Film Festival. The global film/screen festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre and performance artists who created work for the screen in the difficult Time of Corona.
March 1 to April 31, 2022
Venue: The Segal Center Film Festival
Location: online
Program: State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary
State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary is screened as part of the Segal Film Festival. The global film/screen festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre and performance artists who created work for the screen in the difficult Time of Corona.
March 1-April 31, 2022
Venue: Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance, 2022
Location: online
Program: State of Darkness, performed by Cassandra Trenary
State of Darkness is screened as part of the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance, 2022, featuring global works by theatre artists created in the Time of Corona.
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Venue: Tau Dance Theater - Page Academy of Dance
Location: 3478 Waialae Avenue, Honolulu, HI. 96817
Program: Pohuli Workshop: 10:30am-12pm, (9:30am check-in); Molissa Fenley Master Class, 1:30-3pm
Tau Dance Theater presents a Pōhuli Workshop and Master Class - Sunday, February 27th - with Molissa Fenley (Artistic Facilitator )and La'akea Perry (Kumu Hula) - and live on zoom: Alaine Haubert (Ballet - California), and Alex Boyd (Intercultural Roots/Cross Pollination Research Platform - UK)
9:30 check-in, 10am Introductions and Protocol; 10:30-12:00pm Workshop
12-12:45 Lunch Break
Molissa Fenley - Master Class
1-1:30pm Introductions and Protocol; 1:30pm-3pm Class
Friday, February 25, 2022
Venue: Department of Theater and Dance
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Location: 1770 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822
Program: Molissa gives a technique master class and guests in Interdisciplinary Collaborations (practice and lecture)
12:30 to 1:50pm - Modern dance technique masterclass
2:00 to 4:30pm - guest in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: 2-3:15pm Practice; 3:15-4:30pm: Lecture on Interdisciplinary Collaborations
January 17, 2022 - CANCELED
Venue: The Joyce Theater
Location: 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Program: An excerpt of State of Darkness is performed by Cassandra Trenary as part of The Joyce's presentation at APAP
Cassandra Trenary performs an excerpt of State of Darkness as part of the Joyce Theater's presentation of sponsored performances for APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals).
December 1, 2021 to March 1, 2022
Venue: YoungArts Gallery
Location: 2100 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33137
Program: Molissa's score for Pipes Going Nowhere is part of The Choreographers' Scores: 2020, an exhibition at YoungArts Gallery
YoungArts fall exhibition, The Choreographers' Scores: 2020 will open on December 1, 2021, in the YoungArts Gallery, curated by Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA). The Choreographers' Scores: 2020 is a rare collection of dance on paper works created by 26 U.S.-based choreographers. Each artist was commissioned by CAP UCLA to contribute a handmade score to be editioned as a fine art print by The Lapis Press. The resulting editions reveal the unique and intimate explorations of these artists, and insights into their personal perspectives and choreographic ideas, while awaiting their return to the studios and stages.
November 8, 2021, doors open 7pm, performances begin 7:45pm
Venue: Roulette
Location: 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY
Program: Cosmati Variations, parts 1 and 4
Molissa, Christiana Axelsen, Kristen Foote, Cassie Mey and Timothy Ward perform Cosmati Variations, (parts 1 and 4) as part of the festivities of SALONE presented by the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome.
November 6, 2021 at 6pm
Venue: Topaz Arts
Location: 55-03 39th Ave, Woodside, New York 11377
Program: Open Rehearsal of Cosmati Variations, variations 1 and 4
Molissa and company members Christiana Axelsen, Betsy Cooper, Cassie Mey and Timothy Ward present an open rehearsal of Cosmati Variations (1 and 4), music by John Cage
Free but please register on Eventbrite:
September 12, 2021, 3:30pm and 7:30pm
Venue: North Carolina Museum of Art
Location: 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607
Program: State of Darkness
The American Dance Festival presents two performances of State of Darkness at the Joseph M. Bryan Theater, North Carolina Museum of Art. Performances by Annique Roberts (3:30pm) and Michael Trusnovec (7:30pm). Click here to purchase tickets.
June 16 - 20, 2021
Venue: The Joyce Theater
Location: 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Program: State of Darkness, performed by Jared Brown, Lloyd Knight, Sara Mearns, Annique Roberts, Cassandra Trenary, Michael Trusnovec
Wednesday 6/16, 8pm - performance by Annique Roberts
Thursday 6/17, 8pm - performance by Jared Brown
Friday 6/18, 8pm - performance by Sara Mearns
Saturday 6/19, 2pm - performance by Lloyd Knight
Saturday 6/19, 8pm - performance by Michael Trusnovec
Sunday 6/20, 2pm - performance by Cassandra Trenary