This past May, I presented an update on my work in progress at Danspace Project, an event co-sponsored by the Merce Cunningham Trust, and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. The presentation included a panel… Read more
Danspace Project was a founding partner of Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance in 2011. Over the past six years, Danspace Project has continued in partnership with ICPP as core faculty, through shaping course curricula, and through artists’… Read more
Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Color met at Duke University on June 27 and 28, 2015 and again July 14 and 15, 2016. The group strives to discover the terms of its own configuration, as an… Read more
Jaime Shearn Coan in conversation with Marya Warshaw, June 17, 2016 Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), supporting the fields of dance, theater, and performance, is located at 421 5th Ave in Brooklyn. It’s open 8:45 – 11:00 pm, seven days a week.… Read more
In Spring 2016, a group of artists, curators, and scholars gathered for Liveness Is Critical, an intensive ten-day residency program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. I corresponded with Ellina Kevorkian, Artistic Director for Residency Programs… Read more
Danspace Project Curatorial Fellow Jaime Shearn Coan reached out to Ali Rosa-Salas and Dyani Douze about their exciting new curatorial project, MAMI. Emerging curator, creator, and performer Rosa-Salas is currently enrolled as a MA student in Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice… Read more
Our Fall season opens September 23 with exciting new work from award-winning choreographer Jennifer Monson, a singular evening with artist Ruth Patir and some very special guests, and the continuation of our DraftWork and Community ACCESS programs!
On Wednesday, June 29th, Danspace Project partnered with The Poetry Project, New York Theatre Ballet and St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery to host a community vigil. Together, we mourned for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, and for… Read more
Danspace Project took on an ambitious year in 2015-16, presenting work by over 110 artists – not only choreographers, but also the filmmakers, writers, musicians, and visual artists with whom they collaborate, over just 28 weeks.
Raja Feather Kelly writes in response to our prompt, My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are…Because…: Anne Sexton, Andy Warhol, Jan Fabre, Edward Albee, Wim Vandekeybus, Augusten Burroughs and Maguy Marin because when they point their finger to the moon, their finger disappears.… Read more