Following her recent engagement at Joyce SoHo, Janis Brenner was called “a witty, winsome performer, adept at teasing out the ambiguities of any given moment” by The New York Times.

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The program, spanning over forty years of dance, included Meredith Monk’s Break (1964); two solos from Murray Louis’ Figura (1978); Brenner’s signature solo Guilt (1985), danced by long-time JB&D member Kyla Barkin; and the 1994 revival of Brenner’s A Matter of Time. The program was capped off with the world premiere of Dancing in Absentia, an homage and repositioning of the many dance artists lost to the AIDS pandemic.

Read the full review here.