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
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
