This compilation is a small selection of sources that have informed the Platform 2020 research process. These recommendations have been shared through conversations between Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor, the Danspace Project staff, members of the Platform 2020 Research Groups,… Read more
Dancer, Writer, and Curator, Benedict Nguyen was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020. I have this thing where I listen to the same song(s) on repeat for weeks, the same few albums… Read more
On March 26th, we at Danspace Project planned a conversation via Zoom between Platform 2020 co-curator and artist, Okwui Okpokwasili with scholar, Saidiya Hartman, multi-media artist, Simone Leigh, and Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, Tina… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.
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
sam’s song was first performed on the occasion of Sam Miller’s memorial on September 15, 2018. We share this song today, on the anniversary of Sam’s passing, in his honor. Please listen and read the lyrics, below: day pulls down the… Read more
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. day pulls down the sky words by Samuel R. Delany and David Wojnarowicz song by Okwui Okpokwasili piano by Peter Born… Read more
It is bittersweet to post Lydia Bell’s 2019 essay “Ways of Gathering” as she prepares to leave Danspace Project on April 30th. This was a decision she made some time ago, well before the quarantine and our decision, on… Read more
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. radio words and song by Okwui Okpokwasili You hear the radio buzz? Radiation and broken glass I am like those broken… Read more
On February 29th as a part of Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, the Kin & Care Research Group shared both collective and independent research with the public in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, home to Danspace Project. As a part… Read more