OO-GA-LA Reimagined (The Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet Danced into the 21st Century)

At Danspace Project, **OO-GA-LA Reimagined** brings Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones back to their 1983 duet, danced now in a different century and a different cityscape. The piece sits in the lineage of New York’s downtown dance history, where small stages held big aesthetic arguments about form, improvisation, and presence. It is less a revival than a reconsideration, asking what remains of a movement score after decades of lived time. The earned observation is simple: the work treats memory as choreography, not nostalgia.