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

Watch the trailer for Volmir Cordeiro’s Inês, created by Materiais Diversos for its premiere in Portugal, March 2015.

One day, I met a woman named Inês. I wasn’t satisfied with just looking at her – I wanted to get closer. I immediately put aside my role as an observer and began to live with this “being of flesh.”… Read more

Mina Nishimura offered us a photoset in answer to our prompt, “My most significant artistic influences are…” Nishimura’s Princess Cabbage / Celery of Everything runs this Thursday-Saturday at Danspace Project, drawing on source material including the writings of Butoh originator Tatsumi… Read more

Chris Schlichting in conversation with Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor, from 2011′s Body Madness Platform catalogue: On ‘body madness’: “I pursue behavior of the body that cracks outside of my accepted daily conventional behavior, exploring the secret lives in the body… Read more

My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are: Miyako Yokoshi, my mother who has never seen my work. She was a haiku poet. Her sense of space and likings for simplicity and complexity influenced me as an artist. I realized this after… Read more

The video for ZERO ONE features three Japanese performance artists: Hangman Takuzo, Mika Kurosawa and Namiko Kawamura. 67-year old Hangman Takuzo lives in Tokyo. Over the past 14 years, he has been presenting a “garden theater” at his house. In… Read more

“We therefore need a different theatre, a theatre without spectators: not a theatre played out in front of empty seats, but a theatre where the passive optical relationship implied by the very term is subjected to a different relationship –… Read more

From Michael DiPietro, Danspace Development & Communications Associate: Up here at Mount Tremper Arts for day four of a six-day collective residency with AUNTS organized by Laurie Berg + Liliana Dirks-Goodman. Having an incredible time with superfresh meals every night,… Read more

Over Manhattan island when gales subside Inhuman colors of ocean afternoons Luminously livid, tear the sky so wide The exposed city looks like deserted dunes. Peering out to the street New Yorkers in saloons Identify the smokeless moment outside Like… Read more