Mollie McKinley prompts us to dance

sculpture by Mollie McKinley

One of this year’s #PPopencall2020 juried winners, Mollie McKinley, has been invited by Dia:Beacon to lead one of their “Artist Prompts”.

Read below for Mollie’s introduction to her prompt Movement Ritual, and follow the link to get your dance on!

Introduction 
In the 1960s, a group of dancers, composers, and artists began to use an empty church in downtown Manhattan as performance space, which they named the Judson Dance Theatre. This community of artists were interested in breaking down the rules and forms of modern dance. They worked in a style known as the avant-garde, a French phase that means unusual, groundbreaking, or experimental. Their experiments created a totally new kind of dance, called postmodern dance. This dance style is also known as “movement”…