What Remains is a performance by choreographer Peter Kyle, created to mark the closing of Cold Love, an exhibit by Jaanika Peerna, at Real Art Ways, in Hartford, CT. The work invites audiences to consider how the things we see and do and touch and feel now, in this moment, change as they become memory. Performers Raechel Manga and Taylor Zappone act and react with one another while exploring the gestural marks and impressions in Peerna’s installation. The performance lasted around 30 minutes. This edited recording runs approximately 14 minutes.
Choreography: Peter Kyle
Visual Art: Jaanika Peerna
Performers: Peter Kyle, Raechel Manga, Jaanika Peerna, Taylor Zappone
What Remains was performed at Real Art Ways, in Hartford, CT on February 2, 2020.
Videography and editing by RJ Larussa
About Peter Kyle:
Peter Kyle is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and Artistic Director of Peter Kyle Dance, founded in New York City in 2006, and recently relocated to Hartford, CT, where he is Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance, at Trinity College. His work celebrates the beauty of humans in motion, exploring the intersection of thought and action across disciplines and in all kinds of spaces. For more information, visit peterkyledance.org
About Jaanika Peerna:
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist and educator living and working in New York since 1998. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. For her performances she often involves the audience in participatory reflection on the current climate meltdown. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of our existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of all life.
She has exhibited her work and performed extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Barcelona, Venice, Moscow, Dubai, Sydney, Canberra, Montreal, and Cologne. Her work is in numerous private collections in the USA and Europe and is part of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her performance Glacier Elegy was recently acquired by the Glyn Vivian Museum in the UK. Her work is represented in the USA by JHB Gallery and ARC Fine Art and globally by IdeelART. She was awarded the FID Grand Prize in 2016 for her work in drawing, and she has been a teaching artist at the Dia Art Foundation for many years.
