KYL/D Sanctuario, Esperanza Teatro, 2023.
Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, and Ballet moves to classic genres to narrative themes. The avant-garde artist in American art and performance art from the Renaissance creates a themed social gathering to “expand the scope of expression.” (Greggory Battock, The Art of Performance: A Critical Anthology). Kyle Abraham’s choreography on colorful construction paper were sketches from viewing the New York City Ballet, When We Fell. It captured that feeling of being in nature when the world was under pressure by the epidemic health advisory for social distancing. The filming by Marie Helfant brought me to the 2025 live performance premiere at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch theater where Kyle signed the artwork. The stage becomes a view finder for sketching the world nuances & contrast in movement. I started drawing Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers in Philadelphia and reviewing Annie Wilson’s Always The Hour, a full-immersion into installation and performance art at the IceBox Project Space in a retrospective on her solo presented at Fringearts Fall 2017.
Drawing from the Theater means to define the study of movement. The diverse artistic genres point to a ritual display, the act documented in the audience and artists on stage. The Met Live Opera on screen, The Pearl Fisher, 2017, was a matter of translating classical genre, and following Curtis Symphony Orchestra, or the Philadelphia Orchestra artistic director Yannick Nezet-Séguin. The classic Straus, An Alpine Symphony in 2024, and Ravel’s Le Mer in 2025. Yannick signed the artwork after the performance. Show Sketches document the event in the audience review the artwork finds an obligation to represent meaning for this plausibility, and again with the BlackStar Film Festival. My ventures for drawing imagination from live performances brings revelations, existing frameworks and holistic experiences in the art.
WHYSEEART.
Take a look at the content from the Classics to the Contemporary Ballet in critique of our culture. They present concepts that push the boundaries to Off-Broadway and Events to define Multi-Modal Media. A series of sketches in journaling artists in a contemporary world of images & influences part of our surroundings.
When We Fell
Choreography by Kyle Abraham for NYCBallet
What TheArt World means to choose to present to an audience subjects, that is, their ordinary, and the non-ordinary. If we see the art salons, soirées, the theatrical arts, in the dance studios and public influence to participate in what becomes a beautiful interaction. The artists dream things into existence, that really is placer anyone to interpret their view of it. In dreams that look to break away from the reality and remind us to question how we see it. The influence is an imagination of the possibilities, and stories through history for new audiences with in contemporary life. We compare the nature of the human being to a complex relationship of the self, the other, external and internal, real and imagined experiences. I sketch performances‘ conceptual art, as the idea of the artist relays meaning visually through composition.
Meeting the artist, Valerie Green, being in the audience with the choreographer at the Joyce Theater in 2022. Other times I follow the performance of an artist, like Kyle Abraham at the NYCBallet. Artists in conversation with the media, like Jeanne Balibar 2018 Crossing the Line Festival Les Historiennes and her role in Memoria in 2023. This Signature Series of drawings of the most important performance artists in sketches of the art work designs a unique portrait of the artist.
Chris Davis one-man show in the parody holiday extravaganza, The NutCracker: The One-Man Show. It is performed in a run on of sketches from the classic iconic event. In Philadelphia, he is founder of the So-Low Festival in 2018, indicating the low budget and self promotion, or limited resources. Die-Cast showed “Gintry,” and Almanac Circus, Your Sunday’s Best, a special comedy show held at a local drinking hole known for actors frequenting, as well as a look inside of Fergies Pub with Jenna Kuerzie’s Johny Depp retrospective.
Yuja Wang, Curtis Symphony Orchestra 2025
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra is an organization offering a music conservatory & performances by young gifted, classically trained musicians. The Interest for me is how important artists are designed to build on the past, to be able to elevate technical forms. Compositions, such as by EinoJuhani Ruatavaara featuring Yuja Wang on piano, described as a musical genius of our time. A duration unfolds in the composition, throughout the program, and in critique.
In 2025, I made my first appearance at the Association of Performance Art Professionals New York, a premier event for the industry of performing artists. It is with special thanks to Valerie Green at Dance Entropy that made this possible. I was there to draw from an excerpt of her choreography, EVERYTHING. The continued partnership between artists, and the influence of art forms is circular, a social circle of creatives responding in review. Visually passionate in the beauty of their work they welcome audiences in the architecture, to critique & to fancy in reception to our culture. That is, our society by design made up of influences. The signature artist series documents the archival material from the ephemeral art performance.
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Your Sunday’s Best
At Quiqs Pub in Philadelphia, a gathering of local actors and creatives.
Joseph Jiggetts |
Ashley Spearman & Khalif Troy
| Jonté Desiré, Bruce Canada, and Khalif Troy
So-Low Festival
