Save The Date: REBEL ANGELS MAY 7, 2019 Danspace’s 2019 Gala honors visionary artists Simone Forti and Okwui Okpokwasili, whose embodied grace and radical generosity inspire across generations. More info: http://danspace.wpengine.com/calendar/gala2019/
As the year concludes, we’re sharing and celebrating some of our favorite recent releases! Judson Now: the catalogue from Danspace Project’s Platform 2012: Judson Now is back in stock and on sale for $20 + shipping til December 31 at… Read more
For the occasion of A Celebration of the Life of Sam Miller at Danspace Project on September 15, we’re asking absolutely everyone to share writing about Sam; thoughts, memories, poems, life changing Sam stuff…from the mundane to the magnificent. These memories will be included in an… Read more
“To care is to know and knowing well is borne on the transfer of knowledge that matters.” -Sam Miller “The impulse to construct creative conditions. . .” -Sam Miller It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our dear,… Read more
Amuse-bouche From Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets catalogue She said, you came to see human bodies tonight but this is “holy work and it’s dangerous not to know that ’cause you could die like an animal… Read more
Excerpt from Holy Rolling, Strength Training, Eye Attuning, Dance Making By Cynthia Oliver My cousin Merle and I were titillated when our great Aunt Thelma would come to pick us up and take us to church. She was… Read more
by Gyun Hur “… I make the distinction between prayer versus praying… Praying is not about supplication and begging for. Praying is communicating… so that you have more information, so that you can go about your business.” -Reggie Wilson in… Read more
Photos from the world premiere of Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s …they stood shaking while others began to shout, March 22-24, 2018. All photos: Ian Douglas.
Photos from Platform 2018 Opening Event at Cooper Union (February 28, 2018) & The Dossier Charrette: a series of working dance essays by Beth Gill, Jonathan González, Miguel Gutierrez, Angie Pittman, and Edisa Weeks (March 8-10, 2018). Photos by Ian… Read more
Photos from Bell & Water: a symposium, March 10, 2018 & A Shared Evening: Keely Garfield, Same As Sister, and Ni’Ja Whitson, March 15-17, 2018. All photos: Ian Douglas.