Dance Gang

Dance Gang is an American performance art duo made up of Will Rawls and Kennis Hawkins started in 2006 in New York City.

About

The two, both over six feet tall, met in 2004 as fellow dancers in Shen Wei Dance Arts and then started their own project. Dance Gang began with playful dance interventions in public spaces and then continued into short and full-length site-specific choreographed works.[1]

Selected Performances

They performed an hour-long site-specific work, "Dog Free" in the River to River Festival in New York City in 2009,[2] "Dog Breaks" at Dance Theatre Workshop,[3] some interventions into the artworks of Tino Sehgal, Pierre Huyghe, Cevdet Erek and Ryan Gander during Documenta (13), in Kassel, Germany,[4] shorter works for projects by Neal Medlyn: a performance to Beyoncé's 'All the Single Ladies' at Joe's Pub,[5] and a dance to Kanye West's "Bad News" track from 808 and Heartbreaks,[6] also a work at the Ise Cultural Foundation as part of "In Pursuit: Art on Dating,"[7] and others.

References

1. "I am Legend" article in The New York Times
2. Hot Picks in entertainment in the New York Post
3. Review of 'Dog Breaks: Part Two of Dog Trilogy' Archived 2014-04-09 at the Wayback Machine at Dance Theatre Workshop
4. "Dance in Review" by Claudia La Rocco
5. Video of Dance Gang's 'Single Ladies' performance
6. "Kanye West Watches While Naked Woman, Performance Artists Pay Tribute To 808s & Heartbreak", MTV news
7. Information about the exhibition "In Pursuit: Art on Dating" at the Ise Cultural Foundation.