Dancenoise is an American

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

duo created by Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton. Dancenoise entered the New York and Washington, D.C., art and club scene in 1983, performing at venues such as

WOW Café WOW Café Theater is a feminist theater space and collective in East Village in New York City. In the mid-1980s, WOW Cafe Theater was central to the avant garde theatre and performance art scene in the East Village, New York City. Among the artis ...

, the Pyramid, 8BC,

Performance Space 122 Performance Space New York, formerly known as Performance Space 122 or P.S. 122, is a non-profitable arts organization founded in 1980 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in an abandoned public school building. Origin The former eleme ...

, Franklin Furnace,

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, and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. Their work has also been presented around Europe as well as at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Dancenoise has also collaborated with other artists including

Charles Atlas Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano; October 30, 1892 – December 24, 1972) was an Italian-born American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advert ...

, Mike Taylor,

Ishmael Houston-Jones Ishmael Houston-Jones (born 1951) is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, curator, and arts advocate known for his improvisational dance and language work. His work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europ ...

, and Yvonne Meier. In addition to their work under the title ''Dancenoise'', Iobst and Sexton, along with

Jo Andres Mary Jo Andres Buscemi (May 21, 1954 – January 6, 2019) was an American filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Early life and career Andres was born in Wichita, Kansas, on May 21, 1954. She first became known on the kinetic downtown New York pe ...

and

Mimi Goese Mimi Goese (last name rhymes with ''hazy'') is an American professional musician. Career Goese was the vocalist for dream pop band Hugo Largo. Solo Under the mononym "Mimi", she released a solo album, ''Soak'', on the Luaka Bop label, with contri ...

, were frequent collaborators with

Tom Murrin Tom Murrin (February 8, 1939 – March 12, 2012), also known as ''Jack Bump'', ''Tom Trash'', and ''The Alien Comic'', was an American performance artist and playwright in the downtown avant-garde art scene in New York City. In the 1980s and 1990s ...

, an East Village performance artist known for his monthly celebrations in honor of the full moon. Dancenoise is a recipient of National Endowment of the Arts Choreographic Fellowships and a

Bessie Award The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

for New York Dance and Theatre. In 2010, Sexton became the producer of the

Bessie Awards The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

and, as of August, 2012, was overhauling the award to consider a broader range of dance genres, extend the award's notoriety, and offer a commissioned prize to artists. In 2015, the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

featured Dancenoise in a week-long exhibition, "Dancenoise: Don't Look Back."

References

External links

"Dancenoise: Don't Look Back" at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Issue #34: Dancenoise in the Movement Research Performance Journal
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