Berg’s cast consists of four female dancers (including herself) and Tanya. This corresponds to the four figures in Joseph Cornell’s box, Variétés de Minéralogie Object (1939), labeled (in translation) “greenish; reddish; blackish; Cleopatra-ish” along with the cut-out image, which appears as… Read more
Download a daily calendar of all Platform performances and events Curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor & Lydia Bell in collaboration with Eiko, A Body in Places (February 17-March 23) is Danspace Project’s tenth Platform, a month-long multi-disciplinary program that will illuminate and expand Eiko’s… Read more
Singing at St. Mark’s The first time I sang at St. Mark’s Church was in the spring of 1975. Larry Fagin asked me to do a program as part of the Poetry Project. I decided to present Anthology and Small… Read more
As has become our tradition, we are recommending some exciting dance publications as we close out the year: Katherine Profeta’s long-awaited book on dance dramaturgy Dramaturgy in Motion, Ralph Lemon’s Triple Canopy collection of essays On Value based on his MoMA… Read more
“I initiated this project because I wanted to see these dances that my father and Andy collaborated on together, some of them created before I was born. Remaking them is about me being able to see them live, but also about giving… Read more
Join us today in celebrating dance artists by giving $50 or more to the Creation Fund to support the commissioning of new work at Danspace Project. We are a small organization with a big impact made possible by our friends, members, and donors… Read more
At the turn of the last century dancing in Ireland was declared ‘Irish Dance’ by the founding members of the Gaelic League whose mission was to promote and preserve the Irish language, sport, and dance. Theirs was a nationalistic mission… Read more
Watch the trailer for Volmir Cordeiro’s Inês, created by Materiais Diversos for its premiere in Portugal, March 2015.
One day, I met a woman named Inês. I wasn’t satisfied with just looking at her – I wanted to get closer. I immediately put aside my role as an observer and began to live with this “being of flesh.”… Read more
Mina Nishimura offered us a photoset in answer to our prompt, “My most significant artistic influences are…” Nishimura’s Princess Cabbage / Celery of Everything runs this Thursday-Saturday at Danspace Project, drawing on source material including the writings of Butoh originator Tatsumi… Read more