In November I sat down with Ogemdi Ude to extend a conversation initiated by Ishmael Houston-Jones after the October 19, 2019 DraftWork showing of Ude’s Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Conversations between Danspace Project artists, staff,… Read more
Donate today! 45 years ago, in December 1974, Danspace Project presented its first performance: Natural History of the American Dancer by Carmen Beuchat, Suzanne Harris, Cynthia Hedstrom, Rachel Lew, Barbara Lloyd (Dilley), and Judy Padow. 10 years ago, Danspace Project… Read more
Breaking and Entering, is a new collaborative work between disabled artists Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce, exploring congenital and acquired physical immobility through their parallel weak left sides. Cracking a constrained narrative of disability, the pair’s diametric experiences will clash, cohere, and eventually… Read more
Choreographer Hadar Ahuvia recently sat down with Danspace Project Associate Curator Lydia Bell to discuss Ahuvia’s The Dances Are For Us, which premiered at Danspace Project May 30-June 1, 2019. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.… Read more
Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, photography, and dance. Kayla and company are in a production residency this week at Danspace Project as part of our commitment to providing increased time, space, and technical support… Read more
Coinciding with Platform 2020: Utterances from the Chorus, curated by Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project is pleased to announce that Okwui Okpokwasili’s debut album, day pulls down the sky is on sale now in purple vinyl, and streaming… Read more
By Yarden Stern Hadar Ahuvia’s The Dances Are For Us begins with a formal introduction. Ahuvia assembled a troop of performers from different backgrounds and nationalities, varying in their approaches to and histories of dance. She reveals to… Read more
Friday, August 9, 2019. Tickets are on sale today for Danspace Project’s Fall 2019 season: New commissions from Kayla Farrish, Jerron Herman & Molly Joyce, and Sam Kim ! The NYC premiere of Autumn Knight: WALL, performed by a cast… Read more
In conversation with Johnnie Cruise Mercer: on PM4, Foundations, Thru Lines, and Media but not giving it all away by Benedict Nguyen When Johnnie Cruise Mercer talks about the work that he helps direct into being, he uses… Read more
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