MoMA Dance: Ralph Lemon

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York Edited with text by Thomas J. Lax. Text by Doryun Chong, Adrienne Edwards, Saidiya Hartman, Deborah Jowitt, Ralph Lemon, André Lepecki, Fred Moten, Okwui Okpokwasili, Katherine Profeta, Will Rawls. Born in Cincinnati in 1952 and raised in Minnesota, Ralph Lemon is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown dance community in the 1980s. His politically resonant and deeply personal projects are investigations of race, identity, memory and mourning. A polymath and self-described conceptualist, he combines dance with visual art, film and ethnography, creating works that live on the theater stage, in print and in the museum. The book features texts by scholars and performers, an original photo essay by Lemon and an extensive chronology, greatly enhancing the understanding and appreciation of Lemon’s boundary-pushing body of work.