Mark Handforth
From left, Sarah Housepian, Jillian Linkowski, Vivake Khamsingsavath and Amy Saunder move among the works of Mark Handforth, a site-specific installation at Luhring Augustine Gallery. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca
Artist Mark Handforth imagined his colorful, sinuous forms as dancers when he created them for his current installation at the gallery Luhring Augustine in Tribeca. Then, one afternoon last week, real live partners arrived to dance with them.
The gallery became a stage, and Handforth's figures the creative inspiration for the five dancers of the Tribeca-based Battery Dance Company who moved among - and were moved by - the sculptural pieces.
“I’m loving it,” Handforth said, as he watched the improvised performance unfold around his site-specific installation, “Half-Sleep-City,” for the closed-door filming. “It’s the perfect interaction. I think of these sculptures as dancers anyway, so it’s really taking that dance into reality.” The Battery Dance performers were Sarah Housepian, Vivake Khamsingsavath, Jillian Linkowski, Amy Saunder and Razvan Stoian.
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