Keely Garfield‘s latest work WOW is a “meditation on sincerity” titled after the 1979 song by Kate Bush as well as the utterance that accompanies great joy and complete despair.  The work features music inspired by Bush created and performed live by longtime… Read more

    “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