“Mark Haim curated a Food For Thought in 1999 that had 18 choreographers each presenting a 3 minute piece. It was a wonderful evening at Danspace. Mark, kindly, ran his own sound; which was all on CD and possibly even… Read more

“How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?” A couple of poems have been rattling around in my head in recent months: The Layers by Stanley Kunitz and Li-Young Lee’s From Blossoms.  Both consider youth, aging, and experience, but… Read more

My most central influence is my daily experiences and the people around me: my family, my friends, my students, and the performers/collaborators I work with all play a significant role in how I think about my life and my work.… Read more

“Once upon a time, long, long, ago…(the late seventies?), David Gordon was invited to give a concert at St. Mark’s and asked me to join him.  At the time we would have begun to rehearse, my father became ill and… Read more

I regularly consume a pretty hefty amount of visual art. I often think about my work as an accumulating succession of static images and objects. How my eye lands on a good painting, sculpture, or photograph usually translates in my… Read more

#tbt to November 2011 and Gerard & Kelly’s Reusable Parts/Endless Love at Danspace Project.  As the artists described the piece, “[This work] began when Gerard & Kelly encountered an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum of Kiss, an artwork by Tino… Read more

1. Antony Gormley, TRAJECTORY FIELD, 2001 – 2003 2. SimCity When I was a boy, I was obsessed with maps. I would happily stare at them for hours and study the contours of the various islands, cities and coasts that my finger could trace while… Read more

“I overheard Wanda on a sunny day in Washington Square Park in 1980.  A pretty brown teenage girl wearing a sweater.  Sitting on a bench recounting a story to another young girl, similarly dressed.  I was seated next to them… Read more

Sneak Peek: images by Ian Douglas of Luis Lara Malvacías/3rd Class Citizen’s (T). This “post-conceptual dance” draws on Malvacías’s interest in multiplicity as a starting and end point, triggering unpredictable results. Performances run this Thursday-Saturday at Danspace Project