Diana Shpungin, Day For Night
Day
For
Night
In conjunction with her solo exhibition at Smack Mellon, Always Begin At The End, Diana Shpungin will present a multidisciplinary performance created for and staged within the installation’s environment. This fifteen minute performance grew out of the artist’s desire to create a wildly cross-disciplinary collaboration among other creative practitioners amidst the loneliness and isolation of the ongoing pandemic. The resulting work incorporates a hybrid of experimental dance and ballet, choreographed by the artist in collaboration with classically trained ballerina dancer Tatiana (Tati) Nuñez, who will also perform in the piece. An original experimental score by renowned musician Mick Rossi (of the Phillip Glass Ensemble) will accompany the performance, into which he incorporated Shpungin’s own amateur out of tune playing on her childhood piano shipped from Riga, Latvia. The title Day For Night, which is also the title of the score, references the eponymous 1973 film by François Truffaut who famously used a filter on the camera lens to turn footage shot during the daytime into night scenes. Day For Night also features costume design by renowned NYC fashion and costume designer David (Debs) Quinn, who used Diana Shpungin’s sculptural work as inspiration.
Concept and Direction: Diana Shpungin
Co-Choreographers: Tatiana (Tati) Nuñez & Diana Shpungin
Dancer: Tatiana (Tati) Nuñez
Musical Composition:
Original Score: Mick Rossi
Out-of-tune Piano: Diana Shpungin
Costume Design: David (Debs) Quinn
Two performances at 6:00 and 7:00 PM sharp
*Please arrive 15 min. prior to each performance. Late arrivals will not be accommodated
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is a limited capacity for in-person attendees of this performance at Smack Mellon.
Free tickets are available via Eventbrite; tickets are limited to 3 per order and one performance per person
More information on the exhibition and performance here