Myssi Robinson is the Platform 2026 Writer-in-Residence. Her writing and drawings here are imaginative responses to day pulls down the sky, a night of songs by Okwui Okpokwasili in collaboration with Peter Born (Sweat Variant). Original marks were laid on… Read more

This poem-sequence, written by Moroccan poet and translator Omar Berrada was written in 2025 from notes he took during a solo performance by Meryem Jazouli, titled Folkah! presented by Danspace Project on March 9th, 2020 (part of Platform 2020: Utterances… Read more

In response to the performances and events of Platform 2026: Secret Gardens, Writer-in-Residence, Myssi Robinson, is generating a visual and written apothecary—poetic writing, drawings, video, and other media—as a creative archive of the Platform that will accumulate here in this… Read more

“Let’s share medicines. It’s wild out here.“ — Myssi Robinson Platform 2026: Secret Gardens, co-curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Seta Morton, tends to the relationships between plants and dance; strategic seedings, subterranean root systems, medicinal blossoms, rituals and rabbit holes.In… Read more

Bebe Miller’s Vespers premiered at Danspace Project in 1982 as part of the Parallels series which was curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and composed of a group of Black choreographers who were all working “in the parallel worlds of Black America… Read more

Donna Uchizono’s State of Heads (1999), with its “breathtaking” opening, explores the feeling of waiting. The title originated with the idea that the “heads” of states seem to be disconnected from the “body” of the country. The company used this… Read more

  On Valentine’s day, 2025, Danspace Project commenced Danspace @ 50: The Work Is Never Done. Sanctuary Always Needed with Steve Paxton – a video amble, a celebratory evening of remembrances of Steve Paxton (Jan 21, 1939 – Feb 20,… Read more

  Danspace Project’s Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, curated by writer and critic Claudia La Rocco, explored the poet-as-critic tradition; the overlapping dance lineages of George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, and Judson Dance Theater; and their continued… Read more

In this essay, Nora Raine Thompson asks epic questions alongside their reflections on a shared evening between Jade Manns and Glenn Potter-Takata that premiered at Danspace Project in December, 2024. Read and/or listen. Danspace Project · Everything and Nothing by… Read more

In a three part essay, Noa Rui-Piin Weiss reflects on a shared evening of new work by Ayano Elson and Wendell Gray II that premiered at Danspace Project November, 2024. Listen and/or read. Danspace Project · Reflections on A Shared… Read more