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
If you could make one dance before the world ends, what would it be? I turned this over in my mind as I watched a recent rehearsal for Gillian Walsh’s new work, a Danspace Project commission entitled Moon Fate… Read more
Jasmine Hearn writes in response to our prompt, My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are…Because…: those I surround myself with dreams memories illustrations by Diane and Leo Dillan Anything by Octavia Butler all that I have inherited honey water lace vulnerability… Read more
My current sounding boards: Transmission, Translation, Relation, Proximity and Blend. In Yugoslavia, I arrive at these themes through differently angled anecdotal, historical, whimsical and observational texts. Some of these expressions are unspoken and left to my physical body through… Read more
When I watch Jasmine Hearn’s work I feel physically transported in time and space. Her solos weave together past and future selves in the manner of a science fiction novel—a reference that Hearn herself uses in describing the worlds… Read more
by Rosamond S. King (Untamed Space dramaturge) edited by André M. Zachery Untamed Space Description In Untamed Space, Renegade Performance Group artistic director and choreographer André M. Zachery calls upon his familial lineage in the Southern United States… 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