Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born are in the sanctuary this week working on technical elements of Okwui’s Bronx Gothic, premiering January 14 & 16-19, 2014. Bronx Gothic is co-presented and co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Performance Space 122 as part of PS122’s COIL Festival.
Last Spring, Katy Pyle gave us quite a list of artistic influences that have helped shape her working process with The Ballez Company. Here, we dive a little deeper into a few. John Waters and his use of saturated/garish colors… Read more
RuPaul’s Drag Race: We think Ru sums it all up pretty well here: Feminist Artists including Le Tigre, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Karen Finley. Here’s a short documentary clip by Johanna Demetrakas describing Schapiro and Chicago’s 1972 Womanhouse project. Rita… Read more
My most significant artistic influence according to my mother happened when she went to see The Nutcracker with me in her enormous belly, because as soon as the Russian dancers came out stomping and flying I was kicking so strong,… Read more
Gorgeous tech photos from last week’s show by Yann Novak. Check out Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s review of Rebecca Davis & taisha paggett’s shared evening.
onlycolorandlight: Diagram of artistic influences created by Yvonne Rainer in response to a July 1980 New Yorker article about the avant-garde dance community. Yvonne Rainer papers, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
My most significant artistic influence stems from songs. Well, influence comes in all directions, but I would say songs have been the most consistent presence for me and thread between my artistic practice and my personal life-hood (assuming we’re able… Read more
It’s difficult to start a list like this because if it were accurate, it would reflect something of the night sky in its multiplicity. This is by no means exhaustive, but if I had to think of the heavy hitters… Read more
My earliest inspiration came from my dance teacher in college, Eija Celli, who looked like the German Expressionist dancer, Mary Wigman. I couldn’t understand a thing she was talking about but I had a sense that what she was talking… Read more