06/08/2026
We are very excited for the opening of our Summer Exhibitions, which is just four days away! Today, we will be diving into our lower gallery show. Created by Annie-B Parson and Alla Kovgan of Big Dance Theater, “The Oath” (2025) is a large-scale work of dance and cinema that interrogates the human impulse to move in unison. Screened at the Museum in collaboration with the Bates Dance Festival, the short film features seventeen dancers who move through a series of synchronized actions—from prayer to kick-lines to pop dance—within an environment saturated in bold colors that shift in tone with the performers’ movements. The result is a hypnotizing experience that explores what it means to embody one-ness. The exhibition is made possible with funding from the Alex Katz Foundation.
Image Credit: Still from “The Oath” (2025), Annie-B Parson and Alla Kovgan, Courtesy of Big Dance Theater
