We are excited to announce Issue 2 of our new Danspace Project Journal. According to the Oxford Dictionary a journal is “a newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or professional activity.” We do not intend for this to… Read more

by Svetlana Kitto   With some missing brainpower, one still thinks. Some missing physical power, one does dance. — Eiko, introducing Program 6   I remember my grandmother, Bella. She was always smiling or crying. Before the war in Latvia,… Read more

Part 8 “not that theories are not beautiful, but that they are feeble” C.D. Wright     Installation St. Marks Church (March 15) D is for Dance Discipline Devotion Says Merce Through Valda An art process is not necessarily a… Read more

Part 7 “Now that I am beyond the initial paralysis of calling one’s first teachings into question, I am left with: be critical and sing.” C.D. Wright   Fragments from Friday (Words almost heard) Catastrophe of meaning Always hurtling toward catastrophe Catastrophe… Read more

by Leeroy Kun Young Kang It seems fitting that I watched these films before witnessing Eiko perform. There is a feeling, part curious, part mischievous, about peeking at someone’s bookshelf when you go to their house for the first time. The… Read more

Writer-in-Residence Sam Miller responds to Precarious #2: Guest Solos (3/5), Maria Hassabi’s Plastic at MoMA (3/7), and Eiko Solo #7 (3/8).   Part 4 “I don’t know if I am trying to do something new, but I know that I am trying to… Read more

by Eiko Otake   ANNA HALPRIN No description is necessary for this amazing dance artist. She opened her studio and home to us anytime we were in the Bay Area. I sincerely feel that her work and teaching at her… Read more

Writer in Residence Sam Miller responds to Talking Duets: #1 (2/20), An Evening with Paul Chan and Claudia La Rocco (2/24), and Eiko solos.   Part I Lack of policy is a policy Lack of clarity is a kind of… Read more

by Svetlana Kitto Tonight it feels different, this place you thought you knew. Tonight it’s shot through with the past. It’s a haunted house looming with specters in rooms. Rooms that you never knew existed are full of movement and… Read more

Claudia La Rocco Later in the House of God, 2016 text fragments, w/assists from a&k * This work was commissioned by Danspace Project, where it was rendered on February 23 as a four-hour audio loop during a one-night installation with… Read more

[October 2015] In January 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) hosted a public conversation between Eiko and Trajal Harrell, moderated by Sam Miller, as a part of Trajal’s two-year Annenberg Research Commission Residency. Trajal’s residency included an exploration of… Read more

About once a week, someone wanders into Panya, a Japanese deli on East 9th Street at 3rd Avenue, and asks for the bookstore that used to be next door. The old St. Mark’s Bookshop acted as an ambassador to the… Read more

by Paul Chan WHAT DOES IT mean to change? No one steps in the same river twice, Heraclitus wrote. The world is unimaginably different now from what it was in 500 b.c. For instance, many rivers today are so polluted… Read more

by Svetlana Kitto Ten years ago, my friend Tiffany and I drove across the country to move to NYC. We picked up a Dodge Sprinter in Downtown Los Angeles that needed to be driven to the East Coast, packed all… Read more

On December 11, 2015 I accompanied Simone Forti to the site of the former Reuben Gallery, known for its Happenings series—beginning with Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959). Forti was the only woman artist ever presented as part of… Read more

Over the course of PLATFORM 2016: A Body in Places, Eiko will perform solos for small audiences at various locations throughout the East Village. While scouting for sites and looking into the history of various buildings in the E.V., we… 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

Sam Miller is the founder and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He has also served as the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC),  President of Leveraging Investments… Read more

Svetlana Kitto is a writer, teacher and oral historian. Her fiction, articles and interviews have been featured in Salon, VICE, Art21, Plenitude Magazine, OutHistory, Surface, Queen Mobs Teahouse and the New York Observer among other publications, and the books Occupy… Read more