“Mark Haim curated a Food For Thought in 1999 that had 18 choreographers each presenting a 3 minute piece. It was a wonderful evening at Danspace. Mark, kindly, ran his own sound; which was all on CD and possibly even… Read more

“How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?” A couple of poems have been rattling around in my head in recent months: The Layers by Stanley Kunitz and Li-Young Lee’s From Blossoms.  Both consider youth, aging, and experience, but… Read more

My most central influence is my daily experiences and the people around me: my family, my friends, my students, and the performers/collaborators I work with all play a significant role in how I think about my life and my work.… Read more

“Once upon a time, long, long, ago…(the late seventies?), David Gordon was invited to give a concert at St. Mark’s and asked me to join him.  At the time we would have begun to rehearse, my father became ill and… Read more

I regularly consume a pretty hefty amount of visual art. I often think about my work as an accumulating succession of static images and objects. How my eye lands on a good painting, sculpture, or photograph usually translates in my… Read more