Curated by Christine Macel and Emma Lavigne

Taking inspiration from Isadora Duncan’s proclamation “From the first I have only danced my life,” this exhibition offers a historical look at the ways dance and visual art have informed each other since Muybridge first captured motion on film. Nearly one hundred artists will be represented here, from Kazuo Shiraga to Kelly Nipper, with their works—sketches, photo, film, and video—organized by the curators into three “acts”: self-expression and emancipation, bodily abstraction and kinetic form, and the body as event or social sculpture. There will be live performance, too, including a restaging of Felix Gonzales-Torres’s “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991, and a new installation by Tino Sehgal, as well as pieces by Davide Balula, Trisha Brown, and Alex Cecchetti. A catalogue and edited reader with texts by Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben will accompany the show.

— Catherine Wood