TIME NO LINE is a solo work that focuses on how we can identify collective histories through the experience of an individual. This performance integrates movement, song, live drawing, and interactions with video projections of texts and images as the components of a live dramatic autobiographical narrative.

This work utilizes themes and details of John Kelly’s personal history as a survivor of a generation of artists that emerged out of the East Village performance scene of the 1980’s and was subsequently decimated by the AIDS pandemic. One of the goals of this work is to contribute to a dialogue that addresses this rift in our cultural and social continuity.

Text, choreography, direction, video design by John Kelly
Video Design (side channels) by CultureHub
Music by Thomas Adès, Charles Aznavour, Hildur Guðnadóttir, George Frideric Handel, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Zoë Keating, Gina Leishman, Joni Mitchell, Henry Purcell, Ken Ueno
Archival film Sequences: ‘Me O Ye Gods’ (1992) and ‘Painting on Glass’ (1984) by Anthony Chase
Kenneth McMillan’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ performed by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev
Joni Mitchell interview on The Tavis Smiley Show.
Erotic duet on video by Hucklefaery
Photos on video by Steven Menendez, Dona Ann McAdams, Arthur Lambert, John Dugdale.

Premiere: La MaMa, E.T.C., NY, March 2018.