Ishmael Houston-Jones with Elinor Krichmar
Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd was originally conceived and performed as part of Danspace Projects Platform 2016: Lost and Found. Its 2023 reprisal continues to explore and recover the legacies of a generation of artists lost from AIDS complications, centering the choreography and writing of John Bernd, a performance artist active in New York Citys downtown dance scene during the 1980s. Bernds piece Surviving Love and Death, performed at Performance Space 122 in 1981, is one of the earliest performance works to addre...