Platform 2015 – Danspace Project

Platform 2015

Dancing Physics

by Emmanuel Iduma I I’ve heard rumors that the sexton of St. Marks Church has worked there for a long time. I could verify this easily.* I have chosen, instead, to make estimates of his years of service by watching… Read more

Mid-Day Crowd

When they build for a million a day to use it, What is the point in, say, five hundred years, Abroad they’ve still got the pyramid of Whoosis, Would it last in New York? The answer is, who cares. So… Read more

Outtakes

Outtakes from Pam Tanowitz’s “Portfolio” in the Platform 2015 Catalogue, featuring interviews and commentary by Dan Siegler, David Gordon and Cassie Peterson. Siegler writes: I often wish audiences could get to see the work multiple times, as I do, because each… Read more

Self Portrait: Yve Laris Cohen

DESIRE Look at the erotic structure of this platform. “Blind dates.” Couplings. Actual romantic couples, past (JP + YLC) and present (RM + SR). The matchmaking is diluted by the impossibility of sexual desire between coupled artists, given what I… Read more

Self Portrait: Troy Schumacher

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received an invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here Troy Schumacher shares his response.… Read more

Self Portait: Emily Coates

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received an invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here Emily Coates shares her… Read more

“Dance Adjectives”

  The adjectives were tentative. I rolled them in my mind. Writing coaches have told me the fewer adjectives the better. As a word-class, they said, adjectives are dependent on other words for their functionality; yet while I watched there… Read more

Self Portrait: Rashaun Mitchell

Each of the 12 artists in PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets received the following invitation from curator Claudia La Rocco to contribute a self portrait, of sorts, to the Platform 2015 publication. Here, Rashaun Mitchell shares… Read more

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