Dear Friends, Last year Danspace Project’s resonant Platform 2016: Lost & Found explored the impact of the AIDS epidemic on dance artists from the 1980s to the present. One of the many positive by-products of guest-curated Platforms is that it… Read more
by Rosamond S. King (Untamed Space dramaturge) edited by André M. Zachery Untamed Space Description In Untamed Space, Renegade Performance Group artistic director and choreographer André M. Zachery calls upon his familial lineage in the Southern United States… Read more
André M. Zachery/Renegade Performance Group‘s upcoming work Untamed Space draws on the history of maroon colonies–liberated communities of Africans who escaped to hills, mountains, and forests upon their arrival to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries. Choreographer André… Read more
A version of this chronology appears in Danspace Project’s gallery guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer, held at Danspace Project over June 23 – July 1, 2017. In 2011, I… Read more
In 2014 we had the pleasure of commissioning and presenting, along with PS122’s COIL Festival, Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic. The work garnered a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production and subsequently embarked on an international tour. We’re… Read more
This essay appears in the Gallery Guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer on view at Danspace Project June 23-July 1, 2017. More details here. The Useful Lies of Dance Mediation… Read more
A condensed version of this essay appears in the Gallery Guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer on view at Danspace Project June 23-July 1, 2017. More details here. Creeping Trio… Read more
A project by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener Danspace Project was invited by artist and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient, Josiah McElheny, to participate in Madison Square Park Conservancy’s thirty-fourth exhibition, Prismatic Park. Danspace Executive Director & Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor, invited four… Read more
What a remarkable year! We’re grateful to Danspace Project’s artists and encouraged by you and all our supporters who passionately engaged with the work presented during our 2016-2017 season.
What web of connections do generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? Since 2012 we have explored artistic constellations and lineages by asking each artist to share a significant artistic influence. Stacy Matthew Spence responds to our prompt, My… Read more