On November 10, Danspace Project presented a four-hour Conversations Without Walls: Reflections on Some sweet day, a dance series at MoMA curated by Ralph Lemon with MoMA/PS1 curator Jenny Schlenzka. The following response essay is by Danielle Goldman, dancer, author and currently… Read more

“PUTTING THE BODY WHERE THE BRUSH HAD BEEN” In 1961, a tornado tore through Sidney, Illinois while Carolee Schneemann was studying painting as a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chapmpaign-Urbana. She and the composer Jim Tenney lived in a… Read more

THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST In “An Evening with Lucinda Childs,” the choreographer performed excerpts from two solos that premiered at the Judson Memorial Church in the early sixties:  Pastime (1963) and Screen (1965). The solos provided a glimpse into Childs’s early use… Read more

These are emotional times, turbulent on many fronts. Just to clarify my post was written after the first two weekends of Some Sweet Day (including performances by Jerome Bel/Steve Paxton, Faustin Linyekula/Dean Moss/Kevin Beasley) and before Sarah Michelson and Deborah… Read more