Over this winter and spring, I had the distinct pleasure of being pen-pals with 2021-2022 Renewal Residency Artist, Mina Nishimura. Between our constant apologies for delayed reply, Mina and I explored some processes and fragments of her artistic practice.… Read more
Asiya Wadud is a NYC-based writer and teacher and was a 2019-2020 Danspace Project Research Group Fellow. She has authored many books including a collaboration with Okwui Okpokwasili published by Belladonna and Danspace Project. On the occasion of her… Read more
Choreographers, Andros Zins-Browne and Kennis Hawkins were commissioned to present a new live work at Danspace Project, January, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this performance was sadly cancelled. In lieu of a live performance this winter season, Zins-Browne… Read more
Choreographers, Andros Zins-Browne and Kennis Hawkins were commissioned to present a new live work at Danspace Project, January, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this performance was sadly cancelled. In lieu of a live performance this winter season, Zins-Browne… Read more
Choreographers, Andros Zins-Browne and Kennis Hawkins were commissioned to present a new live work at Danspace Project, January, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this performance was sadly cancelled. In lieu of a live performance this winter season,… Read more
“The Sky was Red” is a performance score written by Jo Stewart to document Jasmine Hearn’s live performance, Pleasure Memory, presented by Washington Project for the Arts in Black Women as/and the Living Archive curated by Tsedaye Makonnen. Stewart wrote… Read more
ALTOSTRATUS: AN ALLEGORY is a video work by performance maker Okwui Okpokwasili with collaborating artist, Peter Born. ALTOSTRATUS CLOUDS ARE GREY OR BLUE GREY. THE SUN OR MOON MAY SHINE THROUGH THESE CLOUDS BUT IT’S SIGNALING THAT A… 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
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
In conversation with Johnnie Cruise Mercer: on PM4, Foundations, Thru Lines, and Media but not giving it all away by Benedict Nguyen When Johnnie Cruise Mercer talks about the work that he helps direct into being, he uses… Read more