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Hello & Goodbye, With Love

April 28, 2020

It is with great excitement that we welcome Benjamin Akio Kimitch to Danspace Project as our next Program Director & Associate Curator. We also express our deep gratitude to our departing Program Director & Associate Curator, Lydia Bell, who… Read more

Remarks on Simone Forti by Yvonne Rainer — Danspace Gala 2019

May 8, 2019

For starters, allow me to state what may seem like a contentious description of an enduring relationship: I cannot think of two such temperamentally different personalities than those belonging to Simone Forti and myself, a fact that we have been… Read more

Lost & Found is back in stock!!

April 13, 2023

decomposing with mayfield brooks in “Sensoria: An Opera Strange” by maura nguyễn donohue

December 15, 2022

In a darkly lit church, mayfield's larger than life shadow is cast on the arched and embellished walls of the altar. Their head is tilted back and their braids fall behind them. The altar steps are covered in a mysterious, black, shiny material.

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances and events are posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14 of the Danspace Project Online Journal.… Read more

these ties constitute what we are: iele paloumpis’ “in place of catastrophe, a clear night sky” by maura nguyễn donohue

December 15, 2022

iele paloumpis descends the altar steps backward, with their left arm extended with the palm facing forward, and the right hand holding their white cane. The altar steps are draped with a burlap fabric that has been partially embroidered and there are woven ropes, burlap roses, and other objects adorning the veiled steps.

“I know exactly what you mean” A Community of the Curious with Ogemdi Ude by maura nguyễn donohue

December 15, 2022

Three Black femme dancers with their backs turned, perform a synchronized and wide wingspan gesture, looking up over slightly lifted right shoulders. Infront of the dancers is a large industrial printer that has a long stream of paper extending out onto the blond wood floor of a stage, with lines of printed text covering the enormous page that reads: “OK so I found a squirrel in my backyard found a squirrel yeah there, OK so I found a squirrel in my backyard found a squirrel yeah there”

Retrofitting A Mysterious Mundane by maura nguyễn donohue

August 10, 2022

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances and events will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14 of the Danspace Project… Read more

고래사냥 Whale seeking and loving in my darkness by Gyun Hur

August 10, 2022

A sepia-colored photograph of a wave crashing shoreline frames an overlaid image in the center, it is the same image colored differently in white, charcoal, and blue hues. Onto the photo, a pen drawing of mayfield brooks (dancing in Sensoria: An Opera Strange) is walking across the rocky shore with their arms outstretched and their hair hanging in front of their face.

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and respond. The following piece is the last of 3 offerings from Hur, in response to the Platform, and includes words, images, and poetics prompted… Read more

Common Union: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) by maura nguyễn donohue

August 2, 2022

An Asian American woman, in a black sparkle dress, is on stage in purple/blue lights. She looks out at an audience mid-sentence, while holding a mircophone and wearing a headdress made of aluminum can ribbon tendrils, flouresecent green tentacles, and reclaimed plastics. Her makeup looks like black branches, tentacles or snakes growing from the corners of her eyes.

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14… Read more

Video Postcard #2: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

July 21, 2022

Videographer and editor lex moh presents the second of two video “Post Cards” from Platform 2022. Post Card #2 features video clips and photos from mayfield brooks’, Sensoria: An Opera Strange, the Platform opening event, “Conversations Without Walls: The… Read more

달 장 dal jang : counting tombs for thirty days by Gyun Hur

July 11, 2022

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and an educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and respond. The following piece is 2 of 3 offerings in response to the Platform and includes words, images, and poetics prompted by… Read more

한 옴큼 han omkeum by Gyun Hur

July 11, 2022

An overexposed black and white photo of a group of people crouching along the edge of a body of water. Layered over the photo are illegibly scribed pen ink notes and drawings of small shapes and objects. The center of the composition looks like the inside bind of a black notepad, as if scanned from the inside of a book.

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and an educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and events and to share her responses. The following piece is 1 of 3 offerings in response to the Platform and includes words,… Read more