Over the course of Danspace’s 50th year, we will be celebrating the community, artworkers, and artists that have made these 50 years so fabulous. Danspace has invited 50+ artists with special connections to Danspace to create short films in response… Read more
In a three part essay, Noa Rui-Piin Weiss reflects on a shared evening of new work by Ayano Elson and Wendell Gray II that premiered at Danspace Project November, 2024. Listen and/or read. Danspace Project · Reflections on A Shared… Read more
In this essay, Nora Raine Thompson asks epic questions alongside their reflections on a shared evening between Jade Manns and Glenn Potter-Takata that premiered at Danspace Project in December, 2024. Read and/or listen. Danspace Project · Everything and Nothing by… Read more
Danspace Project’s Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, curated by writer and critic Claudia La Rocco, explored the poet-as-critic tradition; the overlapping dance lineages of George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, and Judson Dance Theater; and their continued… Read more
On Valentine’s day, 2025, Danspace Project commenced Danspace @ 50: The Work Is Never Done. Sanctuary Always Needed with Steve Paxton – a video amble, a celebratory evening of remembrances of Steve Paxton (Jan 21, 1939 – Feb 20,… Read more
Donna Uchizono’s State of Heads (1999), with its “breathtaking” opening, explores the feeling of waiting. The title originated with the idea that the “heads” of states seem to be disconnected from the “body” of the country. The company used this… Read more
Bebe Miller’s Vespers premiered at Danspace Project in 1982 as part of the Parallels series which was curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and composed of a group of Black choreographers who were all working “in the parallel worlds of Black America… Read more