Six Quiet Dogs receives a major grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to support the production and premier of our work in 2025.
Abigail Levine is a 2024 Interlude Artist Support Grant recipient.
https://www.interluderesidency.org/current
Abigail Levine is a 2024 Brooklyn Arts Council grantee, supporting “a soft afternoon,” a gathering of creative work and storytelling brings together artists from across generations and disciplines with experimental practices and an irreverent spirit that harkens back to the culture of downtown New York City in the 1960s and 70s
Spring 2025, details TBA
A Year Without Bodies are stories of dancers who accompanied me through the months of pandemic isolation. In Peripheries No. 6, edited by Sherah Bloor. Published by Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions.
Abigail Levine is awarded the 2024 summer artist residency at The Floor.
Performed by Tak Ensemble
Premiere Sept 22, 2024 at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY
https://roulette.org/event/seth-cluett-tak-ensemble/
Workshops for artists & art writers
Wednesdays, May 1, 8, 15, 22 || 7-9:30 pm EST
On Zoom
Week 1: Writing for creative work, and about it (most general and creative)
Week 2: Artist Statements & Work Descriptions (tools, technique & feedback)
Week 3 & 4: Workshopping (bring in your writing to get feedback, discuss & prepare specific applications, share resources & opportunities + tools from weeks 1 & 2)
Workshops may be attended as single sessions or as a series.
Email abigailhlevine@gmail.com with questions and to register
Skewl @ The Floor on Atlantic
This class is about experimenting with our moving bodies—through choreography and improvisation—in relation to language, sound, and objects, especially the everyday things that hang around our houses and lives. How can we repurpose this stuff of our daily life to serve our bodies’ expression? I’ll share ideas and methods from my own practice. You are welcome to bring along any texts or objects that interest you these days.
PROCESS classes explore dance in all its forms – from choreographic practice to sound/video design to somatic training. This class is about the whole craft of choreographic production as opposed to the body in space alone.
https://www.skewl.org/classes/p/330-abigail-levine
A conversation between artists Simon Leung and Abigail Levine about ethics and embodiment, labor, love, and art-making.
https://movementresearch.org/publications/performance-journal/issue-57
Performances at 4pm & 7pm
With dancers Martita Abril, Anna Azrieli, Julian Barnett, and Kristopher KQ Pourzal. Sound design by Paula Matthusen and visual design by Mariana Valencia.
https://www.fridmanlive.com/abigal-levine-words-begin-as-sound
With Joan La Barbara, James Fei, Abigail Levine & James McNew
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/alvin-luciers-i-am-sitting-room-projected-redux-joan-la-barbara-abigail-levine-james-mcnew
Review of Modern Garage Movement 2005-2011, ed. Biba Bell in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Sept 2023.
https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/issue/45/3%20(135)
Redactions in Issue 13 of La Vague Journal, curated/ edited by Jennifer Pilch.
La Vague publishes female (and female-identified) poets and artists whose work occupies the space between poetry and visual art.
http://lavaguejournal.com/lavague13/levine.php
“Abigail Levine turns life into performance in a subtle catalogue of utterances, inscriptions, and gestures.” —Theo Armstrong, The Brooklyn Rail
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/07/dance/Redactions
September-December 2022
https://www.targetmargin.org/spaceresidency/
June 8-11, 2022
Created by Abigail Levine. Performed by Martita Abril, Anna Azrielli, Julian Barnett, Abigail Levine, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal. Music by Paula Matthusen. Lighting by Madeline Best. Costumes / Design by Magdalena Jarkowiec. Commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater. A print portfolio of the Redactions accompanies the performance, published by Fridman Gallery with context essay by Claudia La Rocco.
https://chocolatefactorytheater.org/abigail-levine-2022/
Restagings No. 2: Of Serra (to movement) included in a special issue of Interim Poetics.
Carrying Across: Crossing Disciplines as a Form of Translation, edited by Autumn Widdows
https://www.interimpoetics.org/interim-36-3/abigail-levine
This workshop is designed to give you tools and techniques for developing language around your creative work that feels both authentic and strategic, building comfort and confidence in writing more generally. MORE INFO
https://chocolatefactorytheater.org/open-culture/
June 26-27, 2021 || 12-4pm
at the future, former home of the Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49th Avenue, LIC
In this workshop, we’ll develop the writing we do as artists, both the creative—language to use within our work—and the practical—language to use to describe it. The workshop is for artists of all disciplines who want to find language to serve their experimental and creative work.
https://performancepractice.la/artist-writing/
Fridman Gallery presents A stranger’s soul is a deep well, a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the work of nine contemporary artists: Ambrose, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Athena LaTocha, Abigail Levine, Nate Lewis, Tyrone Mitchell, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Sahana Ramakrishnan and Matana Roberts.
https://www.fridmangallery.com/strangers-soul
October 11-31, 2020
https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/
Redactions No. 9: A Fragile Thing published in Imagined Theatres (Vol. 3: Open). Editor: Daniel Sack
http://imaginedtheatres.com/open/
Tuesday, June 23 || 8pm
Fridman Live || https://www.fridmanlive.com/
Part of Fridman Gallery and CT::SWaM’s series SO⅃OS, weekly performances inside the empty gallery.
image: Jarrod Beck
Works by Yvonne Rainer, Abigail Levine & UC faculty member Elliot Mercer
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
April 4, 2020
Opening this shared concert of dance with Yvonne Rainer’s “Talking Solo” from Terrain (1963) and iconic minimalist dance “Trio A” from The Mind is a Muscle (1966), Levine and Mercer present new performance works in dialogue with the choreographic questions and compositional logic of Rainer’s early dances.
http://uccspresents.org/events/vapa/2019-20/abigail-levine
The FAR & Away series is a new approach to working with guest artists and scholars. Over the course of the school year four residents will be commissioned to spend a week working at FAR.
March 1-4, 2020
https://artsresearch.fsu.edu/
February 21st & 22nd, ISSUE Project Room premieres Orpheus Variations, a new composition by revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier for solo cello, seven wind instruments, and seven dancers. Written for and performed by cellist Charles Curtis and wind ensemble, the piece is staged featuring new choreography from Abigail Levine.
Levine is awarded a Spring 2020 Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation. She will spend a month at the Foundation’s Study Center in Liguria, Italy.
Redactions is both an expanding collection of text drawings (watercolor and ink on paper) and the performance that results from them. Following the residency period, we present a choreographed reading of a selection of the Redactions. at the Chocolate Factory’s new space in Spring 2020. The performance marks the publication of a portfolio of the Redactions. The Chocolate Factory event launches a “performance book tour” through cities in the US, Canada and Mexico.
Sunday, October 13 || 2pm-12:30am
Fridman Gallery || 169 Bowery, NYC 10002
Restagings No. 3: Fall (C.A.) is a collective ritual—a 10 ½ hour performance—led by choreographer Abigail Levine for a community of performers, writers, and their witnesses. Fall (C.A.) is the third work in Levine’s Restagings series, which re-reads minimalist and conceptual artworks as works of performance.
https://www.fridmangallery.com/andre-abigail-levine
Participating artists: Sareh Afshar, Hadar Ahuvia, Chloë Bass, Kyle Bukhari, Donna Costello, WooJae Chung, Atiya Dorsey, Rebecca Fitton, Camilo Godoy, Carolyn Hall, Greta Hartenstein, June Lei, Clarinda MacLow, Maho Ogawa, Kristopher KQ Pourzal, Janet Passehl, Vitche-Boul Ra, Londs Reuter, Elisa Santiago, David Thomson, and Edisa Weeks.
Work on Redactions continues during a residency provided collaboratively by Los Angeles Performance Practice and Automata.
June 17-23 at Automata. Public showing, Saturday June 22 @ 6pm.
https://performancepractice.la/abigail-levine-dr-residency/
Artist-scholar Chloë Bass reviews Restagings No. 1: Choreographing LeWitt for Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
"Watching Abigail Levine dance/draw the 3744 lines making up Sol Lewitt's “Wall Drawing 56,” I was struck by the feeling that I was in a training camp for something essential toward fixing the present moment..."
Redactions are texts that are created through choreographic logic—written, redacted, then staged.
Performed with Paula Matthusen.
7:30 doors & exhibition of Redactions
8 performance
Human Resources LA
410 Cottage Home St 90012
In addition to their more conventional roles, musicians can (and do) move, dancers can (and do) make sound. From at least Fluxus onward, this awareness has informed seminal works of experimental music and dance. Professor of Music Michael Pisaro and guest artist Abigail Levine propose a series of workshops—open to students across the institute—that address this (becoming) artist, culminating in an informal performance.
