This poem-sequence, written by Moroccan poet and translator Omar Berrada was written in 2025 from notes he took during a solo performance by Meryem Jazouli, titled Folkah! presented by Danspace Project on March 9th, 2020 (part of Platform 2020: Utterances… 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
This video footage was recorded on February 29, 2020, Saturday Afternoon Conversation #2: Kin & Care during Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus. 2019-2020 Kin & Care Research Group Fellows, choreographer, Angie Pittman, and dance artist, choreographer, bodyworker, and acute… Read more
This excerpted text is sourced from a letter written on April 20, 2020 from artist, Ralph Lemon to MoMA Curator, Department of Media and Performance, Thomas J. Lax. It is part of a series of three letters from Lemon… Read more
Curator and research specialist, Kristin Juarez was the Curatorial Fellow at Danspace Project for the Reggie Wilson curated Platform 2018: Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance and (for a brief but crucial time) in 2019 for Platform… Read more
Sitting On a Man’s Head is a practice and an installation by Okwui Okwpokwasili and Peter Born. This work was the centerpiece of the Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, co-curated by Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor. Sitting On A Man’s Head,… Read more
On March 7th, after a morning of conversation between award-winning scholars and artists Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, and Okwui Okpokwasili, the Voice & Body research fellows led the public in an afternoon of shared practice. Artist/Composer Samita Sinha led a vocal… Read more
Legacy Russell is a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence The question of the riot is that it seeks to preserve nothing [2]. —Saidiya Hartman Slowness is a (re)negotiation of spatial desire, a wrestling and (re)definition of time. It is a… Read more
On the opening day of PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, Chilean born interdisciplinary artist, author, and poet Cecilia Vicuña offered a poetic performance that called on every person in the room to participate. She ended her offering with these… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.