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
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
“We therefore need a different theatre, a theatre without spectators: not a theatre played out in front of empty seats, but a theatre where the passive optical relationship implied by the very term is subjected to a different relationship –… Read more
Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie Taylor, Philip Bither (Walker Art Center), and Thomas Lax (Museum of Modern Art) at the ICCP Symposium Curating Performance: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities on July 25. Here Hussie-Taylor discusses the ethos and inspiration behind Danspace’s Platform Series. Thanks to Steven… Read more
Over July 25-26, Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) will host a two-day convening of leaders in the performing arts field. Attendees will discuss topics including creating an artist-centered curatorial practice, and the curator’s role in activating the public imagination… Read more