Jillian Peña shares her “self portrait” from the Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets publication.

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 Emily Coates shares her… Read more

Celebrating Danspace Project’s Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets feat. JAVIER NINJA / JEAN BUTLER / CHRYBABY COZIE / MICHELLE DORRANCE / YACKEZ / ELENA ZAHLMANN // + DJ DOUZE

  The adjectives were tentative. I rolled them in my mind. Writing coaches have told me the fewer adjectives the better. As a word-class, they said, adjectives are dependent on other words for their functionality; yet while I watched there… Read more

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received the following invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here, Rashaun Mitchell shares… Read more

1 Fingers inclined skyward remind me of a certain woman who attends church services without fail. In the course of our singing I notice how her hands move to depict the words. Her wrists control gravity. Her palms are cupped… Read more

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received the following invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here, Sterling Hyltin shares… Read more

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received the following invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here, Jodi Melnick shares… Read more

From the PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets catalogue: I have come to accept that my body is different every day.  My technique is far from perfect, I will have to sweat and work every day to feel… Read more

From the PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets catalogue: …I have given myself over to thoughts regarding our differences and the circumstances which have kept us apart. In this way I have come to terms with the… Read more