Ben Pryor is invested in artists working across performative practices who challenge the boundaries of artistic forms and normative contexts, believing in excess, refusal, transformation and transcendence.
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Ligia Lewis, Minor Matter
American Realness, 2017
photo by Ian Douglas
Since 2009 Pryor has worked with artists to build and tour new evening-length performances. Pryor has collaborated with 83 museums, festivals and cultural institutions in 54 cities across 16 countries.
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Miguel Gutierrez, Last Meadow
American Realness, 2010
photo by Ian Douglas
Pryor has initiated curatorial projects including Festival TBD: Emergency Glitter and American Realness, "New York's preëminent sampler for boundary-pushing performance bordering on dance." - The New Yorker
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Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Séancers
American Realness, 2018
photo by Ian Douglas