Douglas Dunn + Dancers

Garden Party is a series of vignettes, each with its own elegant and playful interaction of movement, visual art, music, and language. Dunn partners with longtime collaborator Mimi Gross to transform his loft space into a verdant haven. Ten members of Douglas Dunn + Dancers, including Dunn himself, frolic within this lush garden landscape while lighting and projections by Lauren Parrish illuminate each scene and its interruptions. In this hour-long work, Dunn’s steps are interwoven with poetry (John Keats, Anne Waldman, and others) and music (Robert de Visée, John Lennon, Emmylou Harris, to name a few). The delicate texts, varied musical scores, and the intimacy of the space may urge viewers toward narrative associations and the opportunity to feel themselves in, not just looking at a garden.