Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Horizon Event No. 4 (2016) commissioned by Beach Sessions Dance Series, Rockaway Beach, Queens. Photo by Alex John Beck.
For the third staging of performances in Al Held’s painting studio, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener will premiere a new site-responsive dance work on Sunday, July 20, 2025.
Please sign up to attend the performance here. Space is limited and registration is essential.
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener are New York-based dance artists. Their work involves the building of collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction. They met as dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance company and since 2010 they have created over 25 multidisciplinary dance works including site-responsive installations, concert dances, gallery performances and dances for film in venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Centre, REDCAT, The Walker Art Center, and MoMA/PS1. Throughout they have maintained a commitment to queer culture and aesthetics. Their partnership intentionally blurs authorship and maintains a deep commitment to collaboration with a diverse community of dancers, performers, artists, and cultural institutions.