by Emmanuel Iduma It is truly a revelatory act: until you feel the kick of completion, like the formation of sinews in the womb, there can be no understanding. Meanings coagulate; a juxtaposition of disparate gestures. The dancers know they… Read more

When they build for a million a day to use it, What is the point in, say, five hundred years, Abroad they’ve still got the pyramid of Whoosis, Would it last in New York? The answer is, who cares. So… Read more

THIS. THURSDAY. Catch Chrybaby Cozie performing his signature Litefeet moves at Danspace Project’s HOUSES w/o MASTERS featuring Jean Butler / Michelle Dorrance / Javier Ninja / YACKEZ / New York Theatre Ballet’s Elena Zahlmann / + DJ Douze 8-11pm //… Read more

Outtakes from Pam Tanowitz’s “Portfolio” in the Platform 2015 Catalogue, featuring interviews and commentary by Dan Siegler, David Gordon and Cassie Peterson. Siegler writes: I often wish audiences could get to see the work multiple times, as I do, because each… Read more

DESIRE Look at the erotic structure of this platform. “Blind dates.” Couplings. Actual romantic couples, past (JP + YLC) and present (RM + SR). The matchmaking is diluted by the impossibility of sexual desire between coupled artists, given what I… Read more

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received an invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here Troy Schumacher shares his response.… Read more

Jillian Peña shares her “self portrait” from the Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets publication.

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received an invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here Emily Coates shares her… Read more

Celebrating Danspace Project’s Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets feat. JAVIER NINJA / JEAN BUTLER / CHRYBABY COZIE / MICHELLE DORRANCE / YACKEZ / ELENA ZAHLMANN // + DJ DOUZE

  The adjectives were tentative. I rolled them in my mind. Writing coaches have told me the fewer adjectives the better. As a word-class, they said, adjectives are dependent on other words for their functionality; yet while I watched there… Read more