Welcome to Issue #3 of the Danspace Project Journal. This issue highlights Danspace Project’s partnership with Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP), a two-year program offering an MA. We are grateful to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s… Read more
Danspace Project was a founding partner of Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance in 2011. Over the past six years, Danspace Project has continued in partnership with ICPP as core faculty, through shaping course curricula, and through artists’… Read more
Danspace Project Curatorial Fellow Jaime Shearn Coan reached out to Ali Rosa-Salas and Dyani Douze about their exciting new curatorial project, MAMI. Emerging curator, creator, and performer Rosa-Salas is currently enrolled as a MA student in Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice… Read more
The following excerpt is from a chapter by Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator, to be included in a forthcoming anthology Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, Envisioning Theory and Practice in Performance (working title) edited by Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique… Read more
Jaime Shearn Coan in conversation with Marya Warshaw, June 17, 2016 Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), supporting the fields of dance, theater, and performance, is located at 421 5th Ave in Brooklyn. It’s open 8:45 – 11:00 pm, seven days a week.… Read more
Curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Jenn Joy, Conversations Without Walls began as a series of dialogues on contemporary choreographic practice. Mutual Seductions, held on November 5, 2011, specifically addressed the relationship between dance and visual art. Participants included Connie Butler,… Read more
Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Color met at Duke University on June 27 and 28, 2015 and again July 14 and 15, 2016. The group strives to discover the terms of its own configuration, as an… Read more
In Spring 2016, a group of artists, curators, and scholars gathered for Liveness Is Critical, an intensive ten-day residency program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. I corresponded with Ellina Kevorkian, Artistic Director for Residency Programs… Read more
This past May, I presented an update on my work in progress at Danspace Project, an event co-sponsored by the Merce Cunningham Trust, and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. The presentation included a panel… Read more