April 30, 8pm: this is not the end: an evening with the 2013-2015 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence curated by Jeanine Durning. Feat: Ivy Baldwin, Whitney V. Hunter, Sam Kim, Joanna Kotze, Stanley Love, Juliette Mapp, Mina Nishimura, and Ni’Ja Whitson Adebanjo.… Read more
Gorgeous work by Eiko Otake and William Johnston from the project “A Body in Fukushima” – part of Eiko’s ongoing “A Body in Places” series. Danspace’s 40th Anniversary Gala honoring Eiko and Wendy Whelan is this coming Tuesday, May 5th!
Ralph Lemon’s drawing of poet Cecil Taylor from our PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets catalogue is one of the pieces in our 40th Anniversary Gala auction on Paddle8. Preview it at paddle8.com/auction/danspaceproject. Bidding starts Friday, May 1!
Kyle Abraham will perform at Danspace’s 40th Anniversary Gala on May 5th – along with an incredible roster artists & companies including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Kaitlyn Gilliland, Koma Otake, Margaret Leng Tan, Shen Wei Dance Arts, & more. Here’s Kyle… Read more
Danspace Project PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, curated by Claudia La Rocco by Jaime Shearn Coan Edwin Denby, the patron saint of this year’s Platform, clutching his tri-pointed model of dance: George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham,… Read more
by Emmanuel Iduma I I’ve heard rumors that the sexton of St. Marks Church has worked there for a long time. I could verify this easily.* I have chosen, instead, to make estimates of his years of service by watching… Read more
“My most significant artistic influences are the lineage of choreographers and dance artists and teachers I’ve worked with. They’ve given me so much to chew on and grow from! Also, a long list of female visual artists who’ve dealt with… Read more
Joseph Cornell’s “Variétés de Minéralogie Object” (1939). The inspiration for Laurie Berg’s The Mineralogy of Objects (tonight thru tomorrow, 8pm). The labels beneath the four figures are: verdatre; rougeatre; noiratre; Cleopatre.
Images: Leon Reid IV George Balanchine’s “Apollo” Mary Beth Edelson – “Last Supper” and other collage work Pataphysics – “every point is a turning point” Wangechi Mutu
My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are: chronologically: Nell Carter, Peter Schmitt, Leigh Garrett, Will Rawls, Terry Dean Bartlett, Stacy Dawson Stearns, David Neumann, Annie B-Parson, DD Dorvillier, Eleanor Smith, and Weena Pauly. Because each one of these people has floored… Read more