Danspace Project Presents PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets curated by Claudia La Rocco Featuring: Kaitlyn Gilliland & Will Rawls, Silas Riener & Adrian Danchig-Waring, Sara Mearns & Rashaun Mitchell, Sterling Hyltin & Jodi Melnick, Jillian Peña &… Read more
On Saturday we’re hosting The Bitch Tracks, a salon with Darrell Jones that is part conversation, part demonstration. In between segments of performance, Darrell will talk to Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Bebe Miller, and Okwui Okpokwasili about his work. But, what is a… Read more
Firstly, there’s our back catalogue of Danspace Platform books, for those who want to catch up with our work over the past four years. (Order by 12/20 for delivery by Christmas day) Then there are these gems which blend choreography,… Read more
“Choreography is a vehicle for dancing. I don’t care about beginnings, middles and ends necessarily. I like things that are too long and lopsided. Structures should be interrupted. Phrases are convenient and can be found on many grocery aisles. Everything… 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
