August 24: Jonah Bokaer: The Disappearance Portraits
The acclaimed choreographer performs his live installation set to a music composition by Soundwalk Collective.
Cocktails at Cooper Hewitt
Thursday Evenings, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
June 8–August 24, 2017
The popular summer performance series in Cooper Hewitt’s Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden. All ages welcome. Held rain or shine. Cocktails and light fare for purchase.
$13 per performance online/$15 at door.
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About Jonah Bokaer
Jonah Bokaer has been active as a choreographer and exhibiting artist since 2002. The creator of 55 works in a wide variety of media (dances, videos, drawings, motion capture works, interactive installations, mobile applications, and film), Bokaer’s work has been produced in venues around the world, including Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Festival d’Avignon, Spoleto Festival, La Triennale di Milano, and SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival. In 2015 he received the United States Artists Fellowship in Choreography, was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow in Choreography, and in 2016 won Italy’s Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, in the Visual Arts category. In 2016, he was confirmed as one of the Resident Fellows at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts.
