Fall 2019

Journal:
Issue 9 | Research, Residencies, and Recollections

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts and The Petronio Residency Center Hadar Ahuvia in Conversation with Lydia Bell: The Dances Are For Us Can You: Music Video by Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce A DraftWork: Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Ogemdi Ude in Conversation with Seta Morton Phase Transition: Aki Sasamoto and Ishmael Houston-Jones in Conversation

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Four women in daylight, one woman face looking back reaches an arm behind her, the second stands staring into the distance, and the third has her arm draped over the fourth woman's shoulder.

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts and The Petronio Residency Center

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, photography, and dance. Kayla and company are in a production residency this week at Danspace Project as part of our commitment to providing increased time, space, and technical support… Read more

Artists' Notes

Dancers on a stage with an unclear image projected on their bodies and the stage, in two semi-circles, linked by their hands held with arms raised at their sides. The dancers are encircling the choreographer and performer as she is standing in the middle with her mouth agape and a lavelier microphone resting on her cheek. She is wearing an oversized gray suit with the ends of her sleeves rolled up.

Hadar Ahuvia in Conversation with Lydia Bell: The Dances Are For Us

Lydia Bell

Choreographer Hadar Ahuvia recently sat down with Danspace Project Associate Curator Lydia Bell to discuss Ahuvia’s The Dances Are For Us, which premiered at Danspace Project May 30-June 1, 2019. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.… Read more

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Two arms in orange sleeves stretch across the screen, locked at the fingertips.

Can You: Music Video by Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce

Breaking and Entering, is a new collaborative work between disabled artists Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce, exploring congenital and acquired physical immobility through their parallel weak left sides. Cracking a constrained narrative of disability, the pair’s diametric experiences will clash, cohere, and eventually… Read more

Note from the Editor

Two women in matching black turtlenecks and gray sweat pants are on the church sanctuary floor, one sitting on her knees upright, and one is lying on her belly curling in on the side of her body that faces the camera. A microphone stand, dressed in many thick brown, orange and white braids with green ribbons woven through, is foregrounded in the center.

A DraftWork: Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Ogemdi Ude in Conversation with Seta Morton

In November I sat down with Ogemdi Ude to extend a conversation initiated by Ishmael Houston-Jones after the October 19, 2019 DraftWork showing of Ude’s Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Conversations between Danspace Project artists, staff,… Read more

Artists' Notes

Set on a dark stage, an art object sits in the center. The object consists of a fog machine in front of a small table with a hole in the center where a stage light is set up underneath. Atop the table is a blown glass orb with a whiskey glass sitting at the base, the light shining a beam of white light that pierces through the glass and the dark empty space above.

Phase Transition: Aki Sasamoto and Ishmael Houston-Jones in Conversation

Aki Sasamoto: Phase Transition was published by Danspace Project on the occasion of Sasamoto’s performance installation, Phase Transition, presented by Danspace Project, January 9-18, 2020. Edited by the curator, Lydia Bell, and designed by Kyla Arsadjaja, the publication features writing by Sasamoto, Bell, scholar Rachel Valinsky,… Read more