Length: 09:38 Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video.  returning is a new short video work by Okwui Okpokwasili with Peter Born, created while in-residence at Danspace’s historic venue in St. Mark’s Church, commissioned and… Read more

Length: 20:17 Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video.  Try, a rehearsal is a new short video work by Ishmael Houston-Jones with collaborators Keith Hennessy, josé e. abad, Kevin O’Connor, and Snowflake Calvert. This film was… Read more

Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. Reggie Wilson’s …they stood shaking while others began to shout premiered on the occasion of Platform 2018, Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance. Curated by… Read more

  Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. Moving Off the Land, created and performed by Joan Jonas, premiered in the US at Danspace Project in June, 2018. The video above is an excerpt of… Read more

  Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. Curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Lydia Bell with Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (February 17-March 23, 2016) was Danspace Project’s tenth Platform, a month-long multi-disciplinary program that… Read more

Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. Sitting On a Man’s Head is a practice and an installation by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born. This work was the centerpiece of the Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From… Read more

Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez’s Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd was presented during Platform 2016: Lost & Found, curated… Read more

  Maura Nguyen Donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience. Donohue conducted extensive research in 2019-2020 around the history of the Platform series, cataloguing the many curators, curatorial fellows, writers-in-residence, performances, print publications, and the… Read more

  “Our goal is to shed light on the ideas of the choreographers, artists, writers, curators, and scholars with whom we engage every day at Danspace Project” –Judy Hussie-Taylor, “Welcome“, 2016 In 2015, the Danspace Project Online Journal was launched… Read more

  Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience takes inspiration from a poem* by the late Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, in which Cha addresses the audience as a distant relative. “Although written in 1977, Cha’s text resonates… Read more