This excerpted text is sourced from a letter written on April 20, 2020 from artist, Ralph Lemon to MoMA Curator, Department of Media and Performance, Thomas J. Lax. It is part of a series of three letters from Lemon… Read more
What web of connections do generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? Since 2012 we have explored artistic constellations and lineages by asking each artist to share a significant artistic influence. Stacy Matthew Spence responds to our prompt, My… Read more
Dear dear Judy, Every fleeting, unexpected, luminous movement brings Trisha to my heart and mind…. the birds at the feeder, the wind slamming the door, dust particles shining on the window. But most of all, some absurd conviction that our… Read more
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
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!
“I overheard Wanda on a sunny day in Washington Square Park in 1980. A pretty brown teenage girl wearing a sweater. Sitting on a bench recounting a story to another young girl, similarly dressed. I was seated next to them… Read more
…I feel like I don’t really know what it is to curate. It’s an exercise or a practice that’s parallel to how I think about creating performances or events or choreography, so perhaps it’s curation as choreography, or how I… Read more
On November 10, Danspace Project presented a four-hour Conversations Without Walls: Reflections on Some sweet day, a dance series at MoMA curated by Ralph Lemon with MoMA/PS1 curator Jenny Schlenzka. The following response essay is by Danielle Goldman, dancer, author and currently… Read more
You can download the program for An All Day Event. The End., Ralph Lemon’s marathon, which took place on the final day of PLATFORM 2012: Parallels. Click here to download! MORE ABOUT AN ALL DAY EVENT. THE END.: On the concluding day of… Read more
After seeing many of the performances during Ralph Lemon’s Platform I get Lost I was struck by how distinctive Ralph & Juliette’s presence feels on the vision of their platforms. Of course these are the two curators and their choices… Read more