Yoko Ono, 1964. Xaviera Simmons will be performing Yoko Ono’s famous score for “Cut Piece” on Sunday, November 17th.  The piece is presented by Danspace Project at Industry City as part of a two-part series, Performing the Precarious.  The full… Read more

Legacy Russell: My significant artistic influences are found in everyday habits—adjusting brastraps, dancing in the shower, drinking with friends. My role models are vast but early on I found inspiration rooted in the fabric of the East Village and Lower… Read more

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born are in the sanctuary this week working on technical elements of Okwui’s Bronx Gothic, premiering January 14 & 16-19, 2014. Bronx Gothic is co-presented and co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Performance Space 122 as part of PS122’s COIL Festival.

Last Spring, Katy Pyle gave us quite a list of artistic influences that have helped shape her working process with The Ballez Company.  Here, we dive a little deeper into a few. John Waters and his use of saturated/garish colors… Read more

RuPaul’s Drag Race:  We think Ru sums it all up pretty well here: Feminist Artists including Le Tigre, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Karen Finley.  Here’s a short documentary clip by Johanna Demetrakas describing Schapiro and Chicago’s 1972 Womanhouse project. Rita… Read more

My most significant artistic influence according to my mother happened when she went to see The Nutcracker with me in her enormous belly, because as soon as the Russian dancers came out stomping and flying I was kicking so strong,… Read more

Gorgeous tech photos from last week’s show by Yann Novak.  Check out Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s review of Rebecca Davis & taisha paggett’s shared evening.

onlycolorandlight: Diagram of artistic influences created by Yvonne Rainer in response to a July 1980 New Yorker article about the avant-garde dance community. Yvonne Rainer papers, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

My most significant artistic influence stems from songs. Well, influence comes in all directions, but I would say songs have been the most consistent presence for me and thread between my artistic practice and my personal life-hood (assuming we’re able… Read more

It’s difficult to start a list like this because if it were accurate, it would reflect something of the night sky in its multiplicity. This is by no means exhaustive, but if I had to think of the heavy hitters… Read more