I recently sat down with Tatyana Tenenbaum to discuss her Danspace Project commission, Untitled Work for Voice, which premieres at Danspace Project February 22-24, 2018. Tenenbaum comes to choreography by way of music composition, and uses musical theater as a… Read more
Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance (Platform 2018) curated by Reggie Wilson February 28-March 24, 2018 Week 1 Wednesday, February 28, 5pm: Walking Tour #1: East Village with Cynthia Copeland Wednesday, February 28, 6:30pm: Platform 2018… Read more
Click here for a Platform 2018 Weekly Schedule Danspace Project’s signature curatorial initiative, The Platform series, was initiated by Danspace Executive Director and Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor in 2010 to provide time and space for artistic and curatorial inquiry. The… Read more
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If you could make one dance before the world ends, what would it be? I turned this over in my mind as I watched a recent rehearsal for Gillian Walsh’s new work, a Danspace Project commission entitled Moon Fate… Read more
Jasmine Hearn writes in response to our prompt, My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are…Because…: those I surround myself with dreams memories illustrations by Diane and Leo Dillan Anything by Octavia Butler all that I have inherited honey water lace vulnerability… Read more
My current sounding boards: Transmission, Translation, Relation, Proximity and Blend. In Yugoslavia, I arrive at these themes through differently angled anecdotal, historical, whimsical and observational texts. Some of these expressions are unspoken and left to my physical body through… Read more
When I watch Jasmine Hearn’s work I feel physically transported in time and space. Her solos weave together past and future selves in the manner of a science fiction novel—a reference that Hearn herself uses in describing the worlds… Read more
Dear Friends, Last year Danspace Project’s resonant Platform 2016: Lost & Found explored the impact of the AIDS epidemic on dance artists from the 1980s to the present. One of the many positive by-products of guest-curated Platforms is that it… Read more
by Rosamond S. King (Untamed Space dramaturge) edited by André M. Zachery Untamed Space Description In Untamed Space, Renegade Performance Group artistic director and choreographer André M. Zachery calls upon his familial lineage in the Southern United States… Read more