“Fugitive Memories: A Fiction” is an essay by Emmanuel Iduma commissioned by Danspace Project and first published in the catalogue for PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets, guest curated by Claudia La Rocco. “I will write… Read more
Over Manhattan island when gales subside Inhuman colors of ocean afternoons Luminously livid, tear the sky so wide The exposed city looks like deserted dunes. Peering out to the street New Yorkers in saloons Identify the smokeless moment outside Like… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
Where does one finally decide to put Balanchine? Or Cunningham? Or Rainer? Or Waring? Or Michelson? How does one see their works as the intersection of various (often overlapping) questions and ideas and techniques, without squashing the crucial differences among… Read more
Ralph Lemon’s drawing of poet Cecil Taylor from our PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets catalogue is one of the pieces in our 40th Anniversary Gala auction on Paddle8. Preview it at paddle8.com/auction/danspaceproject. Bidding starts Friday, May 1!
Danspace Project PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, curated by Claudia La Rocco by Jaime Shearn Coan Edwin Denby, the patron saint of this year’s Platform, clutching his tri-pointed model of dance: George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham,… Read more