“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

by Carl Paris On creative and meaning-making levels, Wilson’s process typically begins with in-depth research into a topic that interests Wilson; and may take months, or even years to flesh out.[1] At some point, he then works out random movement… Read more

Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance Suggested Reading List The following list is a reflection of Reggie Wilson’s research along with texts referenced by contributors throughout the catalogue. The catalogue is comprised of three sections: architecture, history,… Read more

Excerpt from Living Archives and Caregiving: An Interview with Janet Werther, Part 1 The Center for the Humanities, CUNY | November 01, 2016   Release Techniques & the AIDS Body Jordan Lord: You’ve been able to construct an understanding of… Read more

Danspace Project curatorial fellow Jaime Shearn Coan shares his Platform 2016: Lost & Found Recommended Reading List below:   Poetry Powell, D. A. REPAST: TEA, LUNCH, AND COCKTAILS. Graywolf Press, 2014. Teare, Brian. Pleasure. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2010. Print. Myles, Eileen. Not Me. New… Read more

Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Will Rawls shares his Recommended Reading List below:   Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel Delany This Will Have Been (exhibition catalogue), Helen Molesworth ed. General Idea: Haute Culture, A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue) The… Read more

Excerpt from Jaime Shearn Coan in Conversation with Mariana Valencia critical correspondence | September 23, 2016   JSC: [W]orking with archives is so crucial (and I am by no means the first to say so!). They are these time capsules… Read more

Join us on Thursday evenings at 7pm during PLATFORM 2016 for Eiko’s Book Club, with readings by Allen Ginsberg, Kyoko Hayashi, Michiko Ishimure, Kenzaburo Oe, Ango Sakaguchi, C.D. Wright, and Eiko herself. February 25: Post-War Tokyo March 3: Hiroshima and Nagasaki March 10: Minamata and… Read more