Chris Schlichting in conversation with Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor, from 2011′s Body Madness Platform catalogue: On ‘body madness’: “I pursue behavior of the body that cracks outside of my accepted daily conventional behavior, exploring the secret lives in the body… Read more

“We’re playing oldies,” a recording at the beginning of Beau Regard announces. And that’s all I’ll give away. You must come out to see this dance for yourself! We’re now entering week two, the retrospective part of our Platform, Susan Rethorst: Retro(intro)spective,… Read more

This morning, May 9th, movers arrived early at Susan Rethorst’s 8th floor apartment on the Lower East Side, put her living room furniture into a truck, drove it to St. Mark’s Church and loaded it into the sanctuary. So her… Read more

Watching Changes You Body Madness has come to an end. Eight weeks of performances, and we have seen a lot. The spring season of dance in the city is winding down; while the weather this week indicates otherwise, it is time… Read more

Impersonating History Impersonating Choreography It is a historic weekend for dance in New York. The Merce Cunningham Company, in one of their last New York performances, is at the Joyce; the Trisha Brown Dance Company is at Dance Theater Workshop;… Read more

Dances without Dancing, Chaos, Failure, and the Process of Becoming Thyself Typos, transformations, wrong decisions, moments of action that engender unintended results.  Failing to be who we are—or who we want to be—as a process that brings us closest to… Read more

The Silver Feet of Danspace Project What happens when dance is all feet but doesn’t travel anywhere? Perhaps it takes us to a place where we can radically rethink what we are seeing. Danspace Project’s first ever all-tap evening, shared… Read more

“Different cultures have different concepts of personal space. That each person must stay within his isolated space allotment (like similarly charged particles) is typical of our culture. When crowding occurs, personal space is maintained by condensing the field into a… Read more

“Microscopic details get larger and larger,” Yvonne Meier announces with measured authority, in one of the first lines of her spoken score for last Thursday night’s Brother of Gogolorez. Arturo Vidich, Aki Sasamoto, Jennifer Monson, and Dau Yang spread out in casual… Read more

In the opening pages of Daniel F. Galouye’s 1961 novel Dark Universe Jared, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic underground civilization that has existed for decades in complete darkness, runs into a gigantic mutant bat. But it is not the monstrous flying… Read more