duel C (2023)

Commissioned by LMCC's River-To-River Festival, Governors Island, June 18, 2023




Video (49 mins.)


duel C is a performance where care and violence commingle, stirring toward undoing. A dance of entanglement, duel C inhabits an illogic of sentience and perpetual movement, where agreement and disagreement, with and against, solidarity and solitary, harmony and dissonance are free to assume each other's properties.

duel C departs, literally and figuratively from Charles Gaines’ Moving Chains, a public art sculpture presented by Governors Island Arts, Creative Time, and Time Square Arts on Governors Island.


duel C in The New York Times


Choreography Andros Zins-Browne

Created and Performed with Ley

Accomplices// Aeirrinn, oni lem, Kris Lee

Voices// Maribel Alonso, Fay Victor

Costumes// Red3licte

Dramaturgy// Anna Lublina

Thanks to Elaine Carberry and Rebekah Fawn Heller

duel C is made possible through Danspace Project's Renewal Residency and FourOneOne. Additional support has been provided by the Cheswatyr Foundation.

Presented in partnership with Governors Island Arts and Creative Time.

Supported by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.