Archive – Danspace Project

Become a Fellow Traveler of PLATFORM 2016

As a Fellow Traveler you will be part of a valuable circle of participants who, by contributing $150, will enjoy a special set of benefits designed to bring you closer to Eiko’s solo performances, movement practice and ideas through photographs,… Read more

Tickets on sale now for Platform 2016: A Body in Places!

Download a daily calendar of all Platform performances and events Curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor & Lydia Bell in collaboration with Eiko, A Body in Places (February 17-March 23) is Danspace Project’s tenth Platform, a month-long multi-disciplinary program that will illuminate and expand Eiko’s… Read more

Meredith Monk: on Singing at St. Mark’s

Singing at St. Mark’s The first time I sang at St. Mark’s Church was in the spring of 1975. Larry Fagin asked me to do a program as part of the Poetry Project. I decided to present Anthology and Small… Read more

Holiday Recommendations

As has become our tradition, we are recommending some ex​citing ​dance publications as we close out the year: Katherine Profeta’s long-awaited book on dance dramaturgy Dramaturgy in Motion, Ralph Lemon’s Triple Canopy collection of essays On Value based on his MoMA… Read more

Catherine Galasso: on “get dancing”

“I initiated this project because I wanted to see these dances that my father and Andy collaborated on together, some of them created before I was born. Remaking them is about me being able to see them live, but also about giving… Read more

Celebrate dance!

Join us today in celebrating dance artists by giving $50 or more to the Creation Fund to support the commissioning of new work at Danspace Project. We are a small organization with a big impact made possible by our friends, members, and donors… Read more

A brief history of Irish Dance

At the turn of the last century dancing in Ireland was declared ‘Irish Dance’ by the founding members of the Gaelic League whose mission was to promote and preserve the Irish language, sport, and dance. Theirs was a nationalistic mission… Read more

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