Kennedy Center to Celebrate Jason Moran in Three Distinct Performances

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Jason Moran, Artistic Director for Jazz, in creative partnership with celebrated artists Jyoti, Joan Jonas and Theaster Gates as part of the ongoing initiative to feature artist-curated programming through the Jason+ series.

Each of these innovative pairings highlights a different venue at the Kennedy Center and showcases cross-discipline collaborations that approach performance art from a different perspective.

---

Jason and Joan: Reanimation

Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 7:00 PM in the Family Theatre

American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance artist, Joan Jonas, will collaborate with Jason in a multimedia piece inspired by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness's 1968 novel Under the Glacier. Jonas, who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s, will collaborate with Jason to present this live performance art experience where they will interact with one another through narration, painting, video projections, movement, and sound. Tickets start at $26.00.

Jason and Theaster Gates: Looks of a Lot

Friday, February 24, 2017, 8:00 PM in the Eisenhower Theater

American Social Practice installation artist, Theaster Gates, will team with Jason to remount a work conceived by Moran that premiered at Chicago Symphony Center in May 2014, a series of blues compositions presented in correlation with a set designed by Gates. For its D.C. premiere musicians from Chicago's Kenwood Academy High School explore themes of contemporary life for youth and the notion that practicing the art of music is a tool for survival and healing. This performance will also feature saxophonist Ken Vandermark and vocalist Katie Ernst. Tickets start at $25.00.

---

For more information, visit www.kennedy-center.org.