50 Forward: “The Future Is…”
November 1, 2024
Over the course of Danspace’s 50th year, we will be celebrating the community, artworkers, and artists that have made these 50 years so fabulous. Danspace has invited 50+ artists with special connections to Danspace to create short films in response to the prompt “The Future Is…” Artists representing all five decades, from the 1970s to the present, were invited to record a 50-second dance or performance.
“Danspace Project is an artist-centered organization, founded by artists, fueled by artists’ ideas, and inspired by their visions! There are hundreds of amazing artists who have graced our space over 50 years. For our 50th anniversary video project, we elected to invite 50 artists who, in addition to their artistic work, have also served Danspace in an official administrative or volunteer capacity,” writes Danspace’s Executive Director and Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor. “These include artists who have served on our Board of Directors, Artists Advisory Board, Admin & Tech Staff or more recently as Research Fellows. We are grateful to all of them for their behind-the-scenes work and commitment to Danspace’s mission.”
The future is possible. Ursula Eagly
The future is EXTRATERRESTRIAL! Christopher Williams
The future is uncertain and magnificent in its unpredictability. Heidi Latsky
The future is now, so LIVE! jaamil olawale kosoko
The future is unknown. Douglas Dunn
The future is our beloved Danspace for another 50 plus years! Muna Tseng
The future is Living Room and Backyard performing. Barbara Dilley
The future is to continue to believe in “青春の夢に忠実であれ”. In every single notebook sincerely, I wrote this on the first page. Nami Yamamoto
The future is as familiar as the past. David Parker
The future is LOVE. David Dorfman
The future is buoyant… & speechless. Andros Zins-Browne
The future is in our intentions. Peggy Cheng
The future is here. Mina Nishimura
The future is full of friendly faces. maura nguyen donohue
The future is difficult, beautiful, hopeful and hard-won; just like dancing. Juliette Mapp
The future is reverent. Angie Pittman
The future is a mystery. Unknowable. Yet we can affect it. Working hard for a better future can indeed improve the chances of a better future. Carol Mullins
The future is many tomorrows. Eiko Otake
The future is up to us: “[It] is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” William Shakespeare iréne Hultman Monti
The future is a reflection; a refraction; a reminder; a resource. Niko Tsocanos
The future is always anyways already here. NOW! DD Dorvillier
The future is in service of our bodies. Larissa Velez-Jackson
The future is what keeps us going. Rashaun Mitchell
The future is borderless. Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
The future is walking backwards into the unknown. In other words, the future is an ever-expanding now that layers memories, wounds, hopes, projections, and plans; the movement of these inseparable elements, how they change. Nora Raine Thompson
The future is….infinite….. Sarah Skaggs
The future is about listening, dreaming and hope. David Thomson
The future is dire. Benedict Nguyễn
The future is light. Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
The future is free. Jasmine Hearn
The future is Museum Choreography. Jonah Bokaer
The Future is dependent upon the Dance. Reggie Wilson
The future is disabled (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), accessible (Annie Segarra), cripped (yeah. that’s me.) Alice Sheppard
The future is body sovereignty. the freedom to follow the intended path of where the spirit leads the body. devynn emory
The future is breath, finding it and losing it. Ogemdi Ude
The future is what grows from what we tend to in the present. Tatyana Tenenbaum
The future is fluid. Abby Harris Holmes
The future is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wally Cardona
The future is here. Cynthia Hedstrom
The future is great. Benjamin Akio Kimitch
The future is (eventually) the past. Ain Gordon
The future is (despite what I am often told) within our grasps. Trajal Harrell
The future is expansive. It’s what I need — what I want. Melinda Ring
The future is Danspace Project now! Donna Uchizono
The future is… Hilary Easton
The Future is what our descendents will come to know as the past. Miguel Gutierrez
The future is an unwieldy inheritance. Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born
The future is nested and remnant and able. Asiya Wadud
The future is as it will be. Tendayi Kuumba
The future is in our hands (Take what you need). Yvonne Rainer
The future is ZELDA. Jodi Bender