Trajal Harrell: Five Friends in Five Acts at The MET

Thursday, December 4 &
Friday, December 5, 2025

4 pm (Thursday); 4 pm & 8 pm (Friday)

A distinguished dancer-choreographer reimagines the relationships between the “Five Friends” who helped shape modern art.

American dancer and choreographer Trajal Harrell first rose to fame for works that envisioned interplay between performance schools and mediums. His 2009 Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church imagined an encounter between Harlem’s vogueing ball scene and early postmodern dancers in downtown Manhattan, using a signature, genre-defying style to interrogate the very history of dance itself. He then followed with a second period of work that addressed the aesthetic relationship between early modern dance and Japanese butoh dance.

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