The 2020 Conversations Without Walls digital series launches with two pre-recorded conversations broadcasted on YouTube Live: Ishmael Houston-Jones and Carol Mullins on Saturday, August 29th at 12pm ET and Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake on Saturday, September 12th at… Read more
Yves B. Golden is an artist whose work gleams at multiple intersections of media, including sculpture and embodiment, activism and curation, written word and sound, installation and performance. “She is inspired by the sacred bond that exists between memory… Read more
Over the past few months, our staff has begun to collect and share important resources to information, mutual aid, and support for our community during this time of a global pandemic and the movement for Black lives and the resistance… Read more
Curator and research specialist, Kristin Juarez was the Curatorial Fellow at Danspace Project for the Reggie Wilson curated Platform 2018: Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance and (for a brief but crucial time) in 2019 for Platform… Read more
What protections should adorn a body in resistance? What kinds of care? How have somatic practices of the Black diaspora been colonized? Organized protest calls choreographies into action. An estimated 15,000 New Yorkers gathered on Sunday, June 14th, 2020,… Read more
Sitting On a Man’s Head is a practice and an installation by Okwui Okwpokwasili and Peter Born. This work was the centerpiece of the Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, co-curated by Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor. Sitting On A Man’s Head,… Read more
Danspace Project stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Danspace’s staff and community is grieving incalculable losses of BIPOC who have died at the hands of police—these deaths include Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Derrick Scott, and… Read more
On March 7th, after a morning of conversation between award-winning scholars and artists Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, and Okwui Okpokwasili, the Voice & Body research fellows led the public in an afternoon of shared practice. Artist/Composer Samita Sinha led a vocal… Read more
Legacy Russell is a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence The question of the riot is that it seeks to preserve nothing [2]. —Saidiya Hartman Slowness is a (re)negotiation of spatial desire, a wrestling and (re)definition of time. It is a… Read more
On the opening day of PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, Chilean born interdisciplinary artist, author, and poet Cecilia Vicuña offered a poetic performance that called on every person in the room to participate. She ended her offering with these… Read more