Danspace Project honors Rebel Angels Michelle Coffey, Kathy Halbreich, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar for their innovative leadership and far-reaching contributions to dance, art, and culture. Tickets and More Info
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
Blood flows through the City and dries under our feet, feeding the ground we walk on. Similar to blood, memory is flowing, provides life, and is often lost. Blood culture considers the duality of blood and memory in layered urban… Read more
By Judy Hussie-Taylor Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator Beginnings Where are we when we stand, sit, dance, or kneel at 10th Street & 2nd Avenue in the East Village? What is this land where so many have planted, prayed, grieved,… Read more
I recently sat down with Tatyana Tenenbaum to discuss her Danspace Project commission, Untitled Work for Voice, which premieres at Danspace Project February 22-24, 2018. Tenenbaum comes to choreography by way of music composition, and uses musical theater as a… Read more
Give to the Creation Fund before January 1, 2018 and help us raise $18,000 for our 2017-18 commissioned artists. DONATE Thank you if you’ve already given a gift! If you mailed us a check between November 27-December 4, we may… Read more
Dear Friends, Last year Danspace Project’s resonant Platform 2016: Lost & Found explored the impact of the AIDS epidemic on dance artists from the 1980s to the present. One of the many positive by-products of guest-curated Platforms is that it… Read more
André M. Zachery/Renegade Performance Group‘s upcoming work Untamed Space draws on the history of maroon colonies–liberated communities of Africans who escaped to hills, mountains, and forests upon their arrival to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries. Choreographer André… Read more
A version of this chronology appears in Danspace Project’s gallery guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer, held at Danspace Project over June 23 – July 1, 2017. In 2011, I… Read more
In 2014 we had the pleasure of commissioning and presenting, along with PS122’s COIL Festival, Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic. The work garnered a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production and subsequently embarked on an international tour. We’re… Read more