On March 13th, Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus came to an abrupt halt at the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Although we are deeply saddened to end the Platform events, the health and safety of the artists, staff,… Read more
Dear Friends, For the health and safety of our community, all public performances through March 28 have been cancelled. This includes all remaining Platform 2020 events, as well as Megan Williams Dance Projects (Community ACCESS). We will offer full refunds… Read more
As an inquiry-based extension of Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, Danspace invited individual artists to be part of two artists Research Groups that have been meeting regularly over the last nine months with group facilitator, Seta Morton. They… Read more
In (Part I) of Listening to “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016)” : Jaime Shearn Coan, iele paloumpis, and Samantha the robot screen reader , Jaime Shearn… Read more
What you are listening to/might listen to is a recording of a screen reader reading, “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016),” an essay Jaime Shearn Coan… Read more
Listen: of wishing and superheroes words by Okwui Okpokwasili song by Okwui Okpokwasili and Umechi Born day pulls down the sky was initiated by Danspace Project’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor, who brought the idea of a recording to… Read more
“What if our strength lies in our instinct to wind together and swell in a chorus, each of us a tone in a chord vibrating with the past and as yet imagined futures.” —Okwui Okpokwasili Upon taking the… Read more
Aki Sasamoto: Phase Transition was published by Danspace Project on the occasion of Sasamoto’s performance installation, Phase Transition, presented by Danspace Project, January 9-18, 2020. Edited by the curator, Lydia Bell, and designed by Kyla Arsadjaja, the publication features writing by Sasamoto, Bell, scholar Rachel Valinsky,… Read more
PLATFORM 2020 WEEKLY CALENDAR WEEK 1 Sat., February 22, 12-5pm | Saturday Afternoon Conversation #1: Platform as Practice: Collaborative Organizing: Lydia Bell, Maura Donohue, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Kristin Juarez, Seta Morton, Okwui Okpokwasili, Cecilia Vicuña, Asiya Wadud, Eva Yaa Asantewaa WEEK… Read more
Announcing PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus co-curated by MacArthur Award recipient, Okwui Okpokwasili & Danspace Executive Director & Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor February 22-March 21, 2020 Buy tickets today View the Platform calendar The Platforms were launched by Danspace… Read more