Danspace Project PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, curated by Claudia La Rocco by Jaime Shearn Coan Edwin Denby, the patron saint of this year’s Platform, clutching his tri-pointed model of dance: George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham,… Read more
by Emmanuel Iduma I I’ve heard rumors that the sexton of St. Marks Church has worked there for a long time. I could verify this easily.* I have chosen, instead, to make estimates of his years of service by watching… Read more
by Emmanuel Iduma It is truly a revelatory act: until you feel the kick of completion, like the formation of sinews in the womb, there can be no understanding. Meanings coagulate; a juxtaposition of disparate gestures. The dancers know they… Read more
When they build for a million a day to use it, What is the point in, say, five hundred years, Abroad they’ve still got the pyramid of Whoosis, Would it last in New York? The answer is, who cares. So… Read more
DESIRE Look at the erotic structure of this platform. “Blind dates.” Couplings. Actual romantic couples, past (JP + YLC) and present (RM + SR). The matchmaking is diluted by the impossibility of sexual desire between coupled artists, given what I… Read more
Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received an invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here Troy Schumacher shares his response.… Read more
Jillian Peña shares her “self portrait” from the Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets publication.
Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received an invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here Emily Coates shares her… Read more
The adjectives were tentative. I rolled them in my mind. Writing coaches have told me the fewer adjectives the better. As a word-class, they said, adjectives are dependent on other words for their functionality; yet while I watched there… Read more
