Thoughts on the New Work by Kyle Abraham, Marjani A. Forté, Samantha Speis (March 22-24, 2012) According to Ishmael Houston-Jones, a key question that drives the PLATFORM 2012: Parallels is what does it mean to be an emerging black choreographer in the postmodern mode today?… Read more
Thoughts on performances by Dean Moss and Reggie Wilson (March 8-10, 2012) For both their similarities and differences, it was a good idea to pair Dean Moss and Reggie Wilson up in a program title “New Works” as part of the… Read more
Thoughts on Self-concept and the Black [African] Female Body In one of its most compelling programs to date, Danspace Project’s PLATFORMS 2012: Parallels series presented exciting new solo works by Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili. To echo curator Ishmael Houston-Jones in his… Read more
Thoughts on performances by Darell Jones, Niall Noel Jones, Nicholas Leichter and Regina Rocke (February 23-25, 2012) In what ways do popular dance forms inform experimental modern dance? What do individual choices by black postmodern dance choreographers say, implicitly or… Read more
Three Evenings: Diverse Perspectives on the Black Postmodern Dance Question PLATFORMS 2012: Parallels presented its second weekend of performances (February 16-18, 2012) at Danspace Project with three distinct evenings—part of the eight-week Parallels series aimed at exploring questions around the relationship between the notion… Read more
Writer-in-residence Carl Paris on New Work by Will Rawls and Isabel Lewis PLATFORM 2012: Parallels Last Thursday, February 9 Danspace Project presented the first of its live performances in PLATFORM 2012: Parallels. As with the original 1982 Parallels (also curated by Houston-Jones), this year’s… Read more
PLATFORM 2012: Parallels, The Protagonists. Carl Paris on films curated by Will Rawls. It is far-too-rare an occasion that we are able to gather in one place and view, discuss, and learn about past and present dance events and performances by… Read more
Present On February 2nd, and with much buzz and excitement, Danspace Project and The Studio Museum in Harlem presented The Artist’s Voice: Ishmael Houston-Jones in Conversation with Wangechi Mutu and Thomas Lax, the first of its eight-week series PLATFORM 2012: Parallels. Held… Read more
The following is an excerpt from Ishmael Houston-Jones’s curatorial statement, which appears in the catalogue for PLATFORM 2012: Parallels. Join us on February 2 for our public program The Artist’s Voice: Ishmael Houston-Jones in Conversation with Wangechi Mutu and Thomas J. Lax, where… Read more
Winter is here! Our Winter 2012 season is filled-to-the-brim with new work by more than 40 emerging and established movement artists. The season begins with reprisals of two evening-length 2010/11 Danspace Project commissions by Robert Steijn & Maria Hassabi and Tere O’Connor Dance. Danspace… Read more