What web of connections do new generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? In 2012 Danspace Project presented two historic Platforms, Parallels and Judson Now. We continue to explore artistic constellations and lineages by asking artists to share significant artistic influences. Rashaun Mitchell… Read more
What web of connections do new generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? In 2012 Danspace Project presented two historic Platforms, Parallels and Judson Now. We continue to explore artistic constellations and lineages by asking artists to share significant artistic influences. Rashaun Mitchell… Read more
What web of connections do new generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? In 2012 Danspace Project presented two historic Platforms, Parallels and Judson Now. We continue to explore artistic constellations and lineages by asking artists to share significant artistic influences. Rashaun Mitchell:… Read more
What web of connections do new generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? In 2012 Danspace Project presented two historic Platforms, Parallels and Judson Now. We continue to explore artistic constellations and lineages by asking artists to share significant artistic influences. Claudia La… Read more
Legacy Russell: My significant artistic influences are found in everyday habits—adjusting brastraps, dancing in the shower, drinking with friends. My role models are vast but early on I found inspiration rooted in the fabric of the East Village and Lower… Read more
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born are in the sanctuary this week working on technical elements of Okwui’s Bronx Gothic, premiering January 14 & 16-19, 2014. Bronx Gothic is co-presented and co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Performance Space 122 as part of PS122’s COIL Festival.
Last Spring, Katy Pyle gave us quite a list of artistic influences that have helped shape her working process with The Ballez Company. Here, we dive a little deeper into a few. John Waters and his use of saturated/garish colors… Read more
RuPaul’s Drag Race: We think Ru sums it all up pretty well here: Feminist Artists including Le Tigre, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Karen Finley. Here’s a short documentary clip by Johanna Demetrakas describing Schapiro and Chicago’s 1972 Womanhouse project. Rita… Read more
My most significant artistic influence according to my mother happened when she went to see The Nutcracker with me in her enormous belly, because as soon as the Russian dancers came out stomping and flying I was kicking so strong,… Read more
