NIC Kay
NIC
Kay
NIC Kay is from the Bronx.
They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces.
Their work choreographically highlights and meditates on Black life in relationship to space, social structures, and architecture through centering embodied practices.
They are deeply invested in the act and process of moving, the change of place, production of space, position, and the clarity gained from shifting of perspective.
Their exhibitions, performances, and publications include Deep-Time Construction, CCA Wattis Institute, CA, 2018. AMERICAN REALNESS Festival, Abrons Arts Center, NY, 2018. slothish - where deos it hurt?, MoMA PS.1, 2019. you black + bluised, Abrons Arts Center, 2019. pushit!!, CAC, 2019, CD Zines, Self-published, 2014.
They were a (2018-2019) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace studio resident .
They have choreographed for and performed in the works of:
Yulan Grant, Bruce Nauman, Lauryn Hill, Lauren Baskt, Jonathan Gonzalez, Keyon Gaskin, Jimmy Robert, A.K. Burns, Rashayla Marie Brown, Elodie Pong, Amina Ross, Rashaad Newsome, Shea Coulee, Ion Lloyd, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.
NIC Kay have shown work + performed, and taught workshops throughout the United States and Internationally.
Projects with Candor Arts:
