“What if our strength lies in our instinct to wind together and swell in a chorus, each of us a tone in a chord vibrating with the past and as yet imagined futures.” —Okwui Okpokwasili Upon taking the… Read more
Aki Sasamoto: Phase Transition was published by Danspace Project on the occasion of Sasamoto’s performance installation, Phase Transition, presented by Danspace Project, January 9-18, 2020. Edited by the curator, Lydia Bell, and designed by Kyla Arsadjaja, the publication features writing by Sasamoto, Bell, scholar Rachel Valinsky,… Read more
In November I sat down with Ogemdi Ude to extend a conversation initiated by Ishmael Houston-Jones after the October 19, 2019 DraftWork showing of Ude’s Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Conversations between Danspace Project artists, staff,… Read more
Breaking and Entering, is a new collaborative work between disabled artists Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce, exploring congenital and acquired physical immobility through their parallel weak left sides. Cracking a constrained narrative of disability, the pair’s diametric experiences will clash, cohere, and eventually… Read more
Choreographer Hadar Ahuvia recently sat down with Danspace Project Associate Curator Lydia Bell to discuss Ahuvia’s The Dances Are For Us, which premiered at Danspace Project May 30-June 1, 2019. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.… Read more
Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, photography, and dance. Kayla and company are in a production residency this week at Danspace Project as part of our commitment to providing increased time, space, and technical support… Read more