“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

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