Under rising waters, under flesh’s cover, we ask how bodies share and lose one another. Self and other, like tectonic plates, shift, rub, split apart and erode within nature’s queer melo-drama. Mapping territories of togetherness, we discover that to… Read more
Fila Buster in the Autotuniverse from taisha paggett on Vimeo. We’re loving this video we just found by taisha paggett. It’s a great companion piece to taisha’s 2013 Danspace Project commission, a right-angled object who lost her faith in being upright.… Read more
Excerpt from Life Size (1994) by Hilary Easton from Danspace Project on Vimeo. Hilary Easton on Life Size (1994) Life Size premiered at the Danspace Project almost 20 years ago, in April of 1994, when my company was just a couple of years… Read more
Cori Olinghouse: In this process, I’ve been inspired by early silent film and the mechanics of the moving image. Inspired by what I perceive to be a confluence of forms, I’m drawn to the visual rhythmic impulses shared by silent… Read more
THEM / Ishmael Houston-Jones, Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper, 1985 / 2010 “There was a time when the Meatpacking District used to be an actual meatpacking district. There were buildings filled with animal carcasses. I remember I had my mind… Read more
onlycolorandlight: Diagram of artistic influences created by Yvonne Rainer in response to a July 1980 New Yorker article about the avant-garde dance community. Yvonne Rainer papers, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
“I read somewhere that a fingernail clipping contains the genetic blueprint of a whole person as well as an entire galaxy. The choreographer in me wants this as well. Wants the piece to expand outward and contract inward. Wants the… Read more
As a part of PLATFORM 2012: Judson Now, Melinda Ring curated an evening entitled by Dance by Default, with performances by Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Martin Kersels, and Michael Mahalchick, who, like those of the early Judson Dance Theater, collaborate with choreographers and work with dance in other ways.… Read more
