Double Feature with works by zay thurgood & dani derks and Christy Funsch
dani and zay take on a brand new collab with their debut performance, between a rock and a soft place. The work will explore the edges of impulse, hope, desire, tension, and inescapable tenderness.
Set List (2025) collides two of Funsch Dance’s works-in-progress from 2024: PastPerfect, created in the spring in San Francisco, and experimental shards made throughout New York State over the summer. Set List careens through the debris fields of the two processes, nourishing vestigial desires from these past explorations. The past processes are embedded in the structure of the new work, where their tattered edges provide undercurrents of tension. Set List is a work in conversation with its component parts. It values tangents over accumulation.
Christy Funsch recently moved back to NY from the Bay Area. She formed Funsch Dance in 2002 and has created over 15 full-length works since then. She has worked with Susan Rethorst, Julie Mayo, Nol Simonse, Stephen Pelton, Katie Faulkner, and many others. Christy holds an MFA from ASU and has taught at UC Berkeley, City College SF, the University of San Francisco, Hamilton College, James Madison University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Slippery Rock University, Wagner College, Syracuse University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Christy has been awarded residencies at Djerassi, U Cross, CounterPULSE, and Yaddo. She was in CHIME Across Borders with mentor Tere O’Connor in 2013. In 2014, she was one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. In 2015, she became the first woman to be granted permission to perform Daniel Nagrin’s iconic solo from 1965, Path. Christy has facilitated over five of Susan Rethorst's Wrecking sessions in SF, and she has scripted a 100 Days Score for over 50 artists nationwide. Christy taught at ImpulsTANZ in 2015 and was a Fulbright Scholar in Lisbon, Portugal in 2019. Since relocating to the East Coast, Christy has enjoyed presenting and funding support from the Queens Arts Council; Queensborough Dance Festival; the Craft Series; Dixon Place; the O+ Festival in Kingston; Green Space’s Taking Root; the BUSHEL Collective in Delhi; and Dance Force/NYS Council on the Arts’ Choreographers Initiative.