maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14… Read more

  Maura Nguyen Donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience.  “in the absence of presence: returning”  by Maura Nguyen Donohue reflects on returning, a new short film from Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born commissioned for Platform… Read more

 Legacy Russell is a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence  The question of the riot is that it seeks to preserve nothing [2]. —Saidiya Hartman Slowness is a (re)negotiation of spatial desire, a wrestling and (re)definition of time. It is a… Read more

Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.

Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.

by Gyun Hur “ tap tap tap dah dah dah dih dah tap tap tap dah dah dah dih dah…” “ 탭 탭 탭 다 다 다 디 다 탭 탭 탭 다 다 다 디 다 …” un-earthing —… Read more

by Svetlana Kitto   With some missing brainpower, one still thinks. Some missing physical power, one does dance. — Eiko, introducing Program 6   I remember my grandmother, Bella. She was always smiling or crying. Before the war in Latvia,… Read more

Part 8 “not that theories are not beautiful, but that they are feeble” C.D. Wright     Installation St. Marks Church (March 15) D is for Dance Discipline Devotion Says Merce Through Valda An art process is not necessarily a… Read more

Writer-in-Residence Sam Miller responds to Precarious #2: Guest Solos (3/5), Maria Hassabi’s Plastic at MoMA (3/7), and Eiko Solo #7 (3/8).   Part 4 “I don’t know if I am trying to do something new, but I know that I am trying to… Read more

Part 7 “Now that I am beyond the initial paralysis of calling one’s first teachings into question, I am left with: be critical and sing.” C.D. Wright   Fragments from Friday (Words almost heard) Catastrophe of meaning Always hurtling toward catastrophe Catastrophe… Read more