“I initiated this project because I wanted to see these dances that my father and Andy collaborated on together, some of them created before I was born. Remaking them is about me being able to see them live, but also about giving… Read more

Singing at St. Mark’s The first time I sang at St. Mark’s Church was in the spring of 1975. Larry Fagin asked me to do a program as part of the Poetry Project. I decided to present Anthology and Small… Read more

At the turn of the last century dancing in Ireland was declared ‘Irish Dance’ by the founding members of the Gaelic League whose mission was to promote and preserve the Irish language, sport, and dance. Theirs was a nationalistic mission… Read more

One day, I met a woman named Inês. I wasn’t satisfied with just looking at her – I wanted to get closer. I immediately put aside my role as an observer and began to live with this “being of flesh.”… Read more

Mina Nishimura offered us a photoset in answer to our prompt, “My most significant artistic influences are…” Nishimura’s Princess Cabbage / Celery of Everything runs this Thursday-Saturday at Danspace Project, drawing on source material including the writings of Butoh originator Tatsumi… Read more

Chris Schlichting in conversation with Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor, from 2011′s Body Madness Platform catalogue: On ‘body madness’: “I pursue behavior of the body that cracks outside of my accepted daily conventional behavior, exploring the secret lives in the body… Read more

My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are: Miyako Yokoshi, my mother who has never seen my work. She was a haiku poet. Her sense of space and likings for simplicity and complexity influenced me as an artist. I realized this after… Read more

“We therefore need a different theatre, a theatre without spectators: not a theatre played out in front of empty seats, but a theatre where the passive optical relationship implied by the very term is subjected to a different relationship –… Read more